Naturally, what happened in North America could not be hidden from Fang Zheng who was in space.
In fact, when Fang Zheng received Iona's report, he was not moved at all. However...
"What the hell is this?"
Fang Zheng was also dumbfounded when he saw the pattern in the center of the North American continent on the satellite cloud map that looked like some kind of cult text and symbol.
This is a... sci-fi disaster movie, right?
What the hell is this?
Did I go to the wrong set again?
In fact, after zooming in and seeing all kinds of devil-like monsters running on the ground, Fang Zheng even suspected that Diablo had come here to cause trouble. However... this didn't seem to be the same as the demons in Diablo?
At least the human head that looks as big as a horse, with metal limbs and two cannon-like things underneath... This is totally sci-fi style! There is no such monster in Diablo!
No, should it be said that it is a sci-fi demon style?
What a mess this is! All these monsters and demons are popping up!
Although he was very confused, Fang Zheng took this opportunity to observe carefully and found that something was wrong.
Fang Zheng has now realized that the difficulty of Nightmare IV is obviously equivalent to concentrating all the forces that invade the earth together. Logically speaking, if he had not killed the protagonist, the opponent might have attacked in waves, but now they have come out in full force.
Not only that, these alien races, which were supposed to belong to different works, actually seemed to have a very perfect unified deployment. According to Fang Zheng's observation, if these alien races were really like those in his memory, then they should fight.
But in fact this is not the case. They clearly have a division of labor and cooperation.
The huge warships from Tiansha Independence Day were obviously the air force, and Iona also reported that a strange alien fleet appeared in the Pacific and attacked the Pacific Navy. Not only that, in North America alone, there were alien forces that controlled giant octopus-like tripod robots, and the alien force that flashed blue light and could brainwash humans. In addition, the alien force that appeared now should appear in myths and ghost stories instead of science fiction movies...
These forces also encountered each other sometimes, but there was no fighting between them. On the contrary, each force seemed to be trying its best to divide its own territory... Well, this reminded Fang Zheng of when Columbus discovered the New World.
It’s not that I don’t want to retaliate, it’s just that the time has not come yet.
The Americans wiped out the Native Americans of North America and occupied their land. Now the aliens have discovered their existence and launched an attack, and the cycle has begun again.
It is indeed the law of karma and retribution.
Let them do whatever they want.
"The First Fleet continues to spread out, and our goal is to try to retake the entire Eurasian continent."
Fang Zheng had completely given up on North America. In his opinion, as long as the Eurasian continent was preserved, North America could be treated as a pig farm. Anyway, the aliens in North America were using all their powers to transform Americans into alien soldiers. After the transformation was completed, he could still burn a little more.
Just keep it for raising pigs now.
The most ironic thing now is that, apart from East Asia, which has been strongly invaded by Fang Zheng's Blue Fleet, the only region in the world that can still be considered peaceful is the Middle East.
This is normal, after all, Fang Zheng has never seen an alien invasion movie set in the Middle East.
From this point of view, the United States is a disaster to the whole world. Even in Africa, there is a huge alien invasion army...
But even so, Fang Zheng was still very cautious. He had only sent the Blue Fleet's First Fleet to Earth, not even the main fleet. In fact, the main fleet was still hidden outside the solar system by Fang Zheng. After all, according to the nature of the system, if these alien forces that were supposed to belong to different worlds and races could unite to capture the Earth, it meant that there must be a mastermind behind them.
Fang Zheng still remembered that he had watched the trailer for the second part of Independence Day before he traveled through time. It seemed that the force that attacked the earth in the first part was just a vanguard force and not the final boss. In fact, the same was true in the Edge of Tomorrow world that Fang Zheng had experienced before. At that time, it was not the entire alien force that attacked the earth, but only a small vanguard force.
This is normal. After all, the gap in civilization is too big. For example, if Fang Zheng's Blue Fleet was placed in Emilia or Louise's world, he would not need to mobilize all his members. Fang Zheng would not even need to mobilize the main fleet. At most, one plunder ship and two destroyers could solve the problem.
Of course, if we want to be on the safe side, we would have to add another aircraft carrier.
The same is apparently true of these aliens attacking Earth.
Therefore, Fang Zheng decided to hide his main force and wait until the opponent could not help but attack before taking action. After all, whoever moves first at this time will lose.
And at this time, Iona gave another report.
"Commander, unidentified alien creatures have appeared in area A3 and are launching an attack."
"A3...Huh? There are aliens in North Korea?"
After hearing Iona's report, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then he was shocked.
Are you kidding me? North Korea... Has North Korea ever made a sci-fi movie about an alien invasion?
No, if that's the case, it should be a science fiction movie made by Americans, and North Korea was set up as a place plagued by aliens...
Americans are really causing a lot of harm to people.
"let me see."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng made a gesture, and soon, another surveillance screen was pulled in front of Fang Zheng, and then quickly zoomed in. Not long after, Fang Zheng immediately locked onto the aliens flying through the mountains, attacking those villages and capturing humans.
They look a bit like octopus creatures, with silver-white armor covering their bodies, and only the backs revealing bright red tender flesh and tentacles...
"Oh, so this is it..."
Seeing this, Fang Zheng suddenly realized what was going on. After all, he had played games in his previous life and knew what this was. You know, Fang Zheng’s favorite thing to do at that time was to peel off the shells.
"Hmm... if that's the case..."
Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng pondered for a moment, then smiled slightly.
"It just so happens that this can be considered a gift... Iona."
"Yes, Commander."
"Conduct a comprehensive scan of all alien biota and compile the information as a gift to them."
"clear."
At the same time, in the underground air raid shelter of the imperial capital, people were still having a heated discussion. The target of the discussion was naturally related to the strange silver-white fleet.
Although the results showed that the other party had helped them resist the attacks of the alien forces, they had not revealed their identities and had not tried to make contact, which made many people, both politicians and scientists, a little worried. Although for the time being, those silver-white warships clearly seemed to be on their side, this was only an appearance.
No one is sure whether the other party intends to confine them and they are just being kept like pigs in a pen.
"The other party still has no response?"
"Yes."
In response to the questions from senior management, the experts and professors from the Academy of Sciences nodded.
"We have used almost every possible means to try to communicate with the other party, but there has been no response."
"So, do you think these strange aliens are good or bad for us?"
"this……"
Faced with the inquiry from the top leaders, the experts from the Academy of Sciences didn't know what to say. If they said it was good, why didn't they communicate? Did they think it was unnecessary? But if they said it was bad...then if they did something to anger the other party, the result would be even worse.
After all, even those huge alien warships that wiped out entire cities with one blow were completely destroyed by the artillery fire of these fleets. It can be imagined that this fleet obviously possesses superior power above that.
"Report!"
At this moment, suddenly, a soldier rushed in.
"A silver-white warship has arrived above our air-raid shelter!"
"What?!"
Hearing this, everyone was shocked. They hurriedly looked at the screen behind them. At the same time, the screen also showed the scene outside. In the picture, a silver-white warship was floating outside the air-raid shelter, and the soldiers in charge of defense were also very nervous. They clenched their weapons. Faced with this unexpected existence, no one was sure whether the other party's intentions were good or bad.
"Should we..."
“Don’t panic!”
After yelling at the guard commander, the leading old man stared at the screen.
"Let's see what these guests want to do."
Soon, under the gaze of everyone, a white beam of light was seen projected from the warship, and then a small silver sphere fell from it. It looked to be about the size of a basketball, and there was no pattern on the surface, as if it was simply a sphere cast from metal.
After dropping the sphere, the silver-white battleship quickly flew away, leaving only the sphere floating in the air.
Seeing this, everyone looked at each other in surprise.
What on earth is this?
Soon, the sphere was sent to a secret room in the air-raid shelter under heavy guard. At the same time, scholars and experts from the Academy of Sciences also came here and looked at the sphere in front of them.
"Is this... just a ball?"
"No, actually..."
The soldier in charge of guarding the sphere answered in confusion, then he reached out and gently touched the sphere. Soon, a map of the earth appeared on the surface of the sphere, and not only that, but also four colors of red, yellow, blue, and green were used to indicate the territory of a country in the east, south, west, and north.
"What's this?"
Seeing this, the top management couldn't help but feel confused. Could it be that this was some kind of puzzle toy given to them by aliens?
However, when some scientists saw this scene, their eyes suddenly lit up.
"This is the four-color conjecture! Sure enough, our guess was correct!"
"Four-color conjecture?"
"Yes."
Hearing the elder's question, the scientist hurriedly explained to him.
"This was proposed by a British university student named Goodry. He wanted to know why any map can use only four colors to color countries with common borders in different colors. From a mathematical point of view, it is manifested in that the plane is arbitrarily subdivided into non-overlapping areas, and each area can always be marked with one of the four numbers 1234 without adjacent areas getting the same number."
"That's really interesting."
Hearing this, the senior leaders were also quite curious. After all, they would not be exposed to such little-known knowledge. It also sounded very interesting, but...
"What does this have to do with this ball?"
"This is a test question. The other party obviously wants to use this method to confirm whether our civilization level has reached the level to communicate with them. If we solve this puzzle, we will be able to go one step further!"
"So, can we solve this problem?"
Although the top leaders are not quite clear about the four-color conjecture, they also know that if they can solve this mystery, it might be the first step in communicating with alien civilizations!
"This... is very difficult. To be honest, the four-color conjecture has not been fully solved so far. In the past, we chose the filling area ourselves. But this time, the other party has specified the four basic standard points of red, yellow, blue and green. We must complete the four-color conjecture on this basis, which requires the support of supercomputers..."
"No problem. From now on, all units across the country will do their best to cooperate with you to complete the task! Just tell us what you need. We only ask that you solve the problem in the shortest possible time!"
Compared to those excited scientists, senior politicians think more. Perhaps for scientists, this is just a test question, and if they pass the test, they will be qualified to communicate with higher civilizations.
But what will happen if I fail the exam?
Will they be treated as savage creatures with no sense of communication?
As a civilization that has continued the examination tradition for thousands of years, they are very clear that "examinations" are not just a good thing.
No, this should be considered the "Palace Examination".
Just like the emperor's couplet "a line of geese flying south", if you want to answer with "two roast ducks going north", then you will definitely be roasted...
At the same time, in the battleship, Iona still maintained her duck sitting posture, sitting on the table next to Fang Zheng.
"Commander, is there any point in doing this?"
Iona looked at Fang Zheng in confusion. All the information collected by the Blue Fleet had been completely stuffed into the sphere, but what Iona didn't expect was that Fang Zheng actually encrypted the sphere before sending it over. In Iona's opinion, since it was just to transmit intelligence, why bother sending it directly?
"In short, it's a kind of stimulation. It's better than doing nothing."
Fang Zheng shook his head. He did this in accordance with the Forerunners' civilization contact method in Mass Effect. It was also a reminder to his compatriots in this world. After all, this was just a dog food world. Fang Zheng left after he finished brushing, but he was not sure whether there would be aliens in this world in the future. If Fang Zheng directly gave assistance and the other party accepted it directly, then he might suffer a loss next time.
Just in case, it is better to follow the rules, which is better for both parties.
"Also, there is one more thing...Commander."
"Um?"
"Rafi discovered light-speed information waves in the Delta Quadrant that communicate with the solar system."
"oh?"
Hearing this, Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows.
"let me see."
"yes."
As Fang Zheng spoke, Iona waved her hand gently, and soon, the scene in front of her changed again. Then she saw a square, Rubik's Cube-like object that looked almost as big as a planet in the infinite starry sky, moving towards the direction of the solar system...
“Could this be…”
Seeing this, Fang Zheng's expression changed slightly.
Sure enough, the difficulty of Nightmare IV is not that easy.