LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 808 - 481: Traitor_1
Chapter 808: Chapter 481: Traitor_1
Not only that, but the number of professional soldiers within the Shadow Galaxy has now dropped to less than 300 billion.
If such a massive cover-up operation were to be carried out, it would be necessary to mobilize many reserve forces within the galaxy. The number of casualties would inevitably exceed 3 billion, possibly affecting the third and fourth lines of defense, as well as the defensive forces near the inner Dyson membrane and major planets.
The impact on the war situation will cause a series of chain reactions.
Faced with such a heavy price, even though the soldiers in the Shadow Galaxy are willing to pay, Harrison Clark is not willing to accept.
In a time of war where every minute counts, the entire senior management discussed for a full two hours but couldn’t come up with an effective decision and had to put it on hold temporarily.
Everyone went their separate ways, leaving experts, scholars, senior commanders, and elite soldiers from various departments such as the Science Academy, War Planning Institute, Sage Institute, and others to continue their discussions, striving to come up with a feasible plan with the smallest possible sacrifice within five hours.
The dawn of success in the Long March, spanning 42 light-years, is just within reach.
However, the difficulty of this last step seems to be a bit beyond the scope.
In the small meeting room, Nora Camp lingered for a while.
She didn’t say much.
“I will definitely think of the best way, sacrificing the least number of people, and then bring both of you back.”
After that, Nora Camp’s figure disappeared.
Harrison Clark exited the medium layer network and returned to the command room.
Hearing his footsteps, Freddy, who was rubbing his temples, reluctantly opened his sleepy eyes and said, “Brother, I feel that your wife wants to use herself as bait.”
Harrison Clark nodded, “I know.”
“Then you don’t object?”
Harrison Clark shook his head, “It’s no use. She’s not someone who will easily change her decisions based on my requests. No matter what she decides, there will definitely be the best strategic value. My job is to execute, that’s all. It was like that in the past, it’s like that now, and it will still be like that in the future.”
After a long silence, Freddy tentatively said, “Actually, things may not be that complicated? I modified the Warp Battle Armor again a couple of days ago, and the shield and power have been significantly improved, reaching at least 70% of the Star Shadow Armor. Combined with short-range warp capabilities, you can charge straight in with the core on your own. Your individual target is much smaller than the Morrowind No.2, and the success rate is at least 60% or more. If it’s you, it should be 100%.”
Harrison Clark shook his head, “Don’t think about these things.”
Freddy anxiously said, “Brother, actually I’ve already…”
Harrison Clark’s gaze became focused, and his expression grew extremely stern as he abruptly interrupted Freddy, “I haven’t fallen so low as to have to leave you behind to survive on my own. Besides, the Planting Battleship hasn’t been completed yet, and the Prism Ship’s outer shell hasn’t been cracked. You want to wipe yourself out because the promised work hasn’t been completed? Is it that easy to escape responsibility? Freddy, I have high hopes for you, don’t let me down.”
After saying this, Harrison Clark turned and walked away, quickly returning to the training room, donning the newly modified Warp Armor, and began a new round of intensive training.
He understood Freddy’s meaning.
Human power is limited, but knowledge is infinite.
With continuous high-intensity self-extrusion, Freddy’s body is rapidly deteriorating in an irreversible manner.
His human vitality is long exhausted.
What keeps him alive is the complete fusion of the Gelasian body with his own, and the Gelasian organism forcibly binds his collapsing genes within his body.
But now, it’s clear that the life force of the Gelasians can’t withstand his torment either.
Freddy knows his days are numbered and is already resigned to death, hoping for Harrison Clark to abandon him and survive alone.
It seems like a good suggestion.
But Harrison Clark’s stern refusal is based on three considerations.
First, Freddy, unlike anyone else in this timeline, really has only one life.
Second, Harrison Clark has a strong demand for Planting Battleship technology, and Freddy wants to use death to “evade responsibility,” which Harrison Clark will not agree to.
Third, Harrison Clark has already advised him not to put so much pressure on himself, to balance work and rest, but Freddy simply won’t listen. So Harrison Clark takes the opposite approach, using Freddy’s sense of responsibility to try to activate his own will to survive. As long as he can live, even if it’s in pain, it’s better than dying.
While strengthening his own training, Harrison Clark personally adds an additional load module to the Warp Battle Armor.
Harrison Clark thought that if he really had no choice, he would put Freddy in the Warp Armor and escape with him.
However, after briefly training, he gave up this unrealistic idea.
It wasn’t that his own operational level couldn’t keep up, but after simply testing the inertial impact strength of the Warp Armor during high-speed maneuvers, he realized that, given Freddy’s untrained physical strength, even just one change in direction or acceleration would turn him into a pulp. Either way, it’s still death.
Jumping down, Harrison Clark angrily hammered the armor, his gaze piercing through the gap in the window to the distance.
How helpless.
Is this really the only choice?
Things won’t change easily because of personal will. While Harrison Clark was racking his brains about how to safely enter the Shadow Galaxy, the war outside never ceased for a moment.Harrison Clark’s daily routine training could not be stopped.
He entered the medium communication space again.
Today’s course focused on explaining the operations of several newly promoted elite warriors who had reached the tenth level of combat intuition in the past few days.
Some of these warriors survived.
They could summarize themselves or have Daniel Thompson help judge, but Harrison Clark’s analysis was the most profound, providing the best guidance for others.
Before the class began, Harrison Clark quickly glanced at the list of trainees.
He frowned, missing a few thousand people.
He turned to Daniel Thompson beside him, “Lion, where are the people from the Shadow Forces?”
Daniel Thompson shook his head in confusion, “I’m not very clear either. Maybe they have some secret mission.”
“What a ghostly secret mission; this group of people is just making a joke. Besides training, they’re almost occupying half of the top 100 scores. Not a single one of them has decreased, indicating that they haven’t been deployed at all. It’s a waste of resources; it’s better to choose some real brothers who will go to the battlefield instead.”
“That’s right. It’s disgusting.”
Many people in the training academy below had already joined the Torrent Assault Team, and they had been to the battlefield dozens or even hundreds of times.
In contrast, the other students had been annoyed by the Shadow Forces, who had participated in training for several months but always kept their heads down and never deployed.
If it weren’t for the fact that there are still many people unafraid of sacrifice in this era, some people would’ve accumulated resentment and felt unbalanced at heart.
“Don’t say that; the Sage Institute must have their arrangements. We just need to execute them. After all, our ultimate goal is the same.”
Daniel Thompson tried to comfort everyone.
During these months, he had gradually adapted to his role as an instructor and become quite articulate.
“Fine, whatever. I just hope to die before them, and have no regrets.”
Still unconvinced, the trainee shrugged.
Harrison Clark didn’t say anything.
Logically, he was a little annoyed himself.
But considering the possibility of exposing secrets on the quantum network, he didn’t delve too deep either.
In a sense, the Sage Institute is his spokesperson.
Even if it was the execution of a wrong decision, Harrison Clark didn’t think he had the need to blame others.
Two hours later, as Harrison Clark was explaining how a soldier used his intuition to avoid the pincer attack of three Blade Mantises and charged within ten kilometers of a Prism Ship, he suddenly received an emergency intelligence report.
Someone had defected.
This person was leading a large number of special battleships, trying to break through their own internal defense line and rendezvous with the Compound Eye Prism Ship.
Harrison Clark was shocked.
Would the damn Fly Men accept human defectors?
Do humans now have the qualifications to be prisoners of war?
If he didn’t know the Compound-Eyed Observer too well.
He might even waver instantly.
As long as civilization can continue, as long as some can survive.
Even being a prisoner of war is fine!
Don’t they understand the principle of keeping a green hill to not worry about having no firewood?
Have they heard of sleeping on straw to taste gall?
However, reason told him that this was unrealistic.
Even if someone really contacted the Fly Eye and reached an agreement with them, it would still be a scam in the end.
They would ultimately die, and it would be even more meaningless.
When he finally learned the defector’s name, he couldn’t understand even more.
Needham Brown.