Although all the compound eyes have been killed, the battlefield is still busy.

Engineering ships and medical ships shuttled around to clean up the battlefield, and their work included rescuing the wounded, storing corpses, and repairing equipment.

There were also many professional soldiers who carefully drove fighter planes and small warships to approach the wreckage of the ball ship, using barrage guns to neutralize and eliminate the physical toxins that continued to float out from the prismatic area.

The scene looked quiet and busy.

The war was finally over, and people's faces were mostly filled with lingering joy, but every time they found the broken bodies of their comrades from the twisted metal, they could not hide their sadness.

A large medical ship was docked next to the general command ship. In the medical room, Chen Feng and Tang Tianxin were lying side by side in two multifunctional treatment cabins.

Chen Feng's skin was cracked all over, and the blood that gushed out dyed the nutrient solution in the treatment cabin pink.

He had not completed the treatment just now. The pressure on his body from controlling the Starship Colossus was extremely high, and he rushed to the front of the spherical battleship head-on, completing a series of extremely risky operations.

The aftershocks from the two impacts when he used the neutron shield and armor to hold up the spherical battleship were enough for him to drink a bottle of water.

Later, he left the back armor in place and manipulated the huge Starship Colossus to move and escape. The curvature membrane structure layer at the foot of the Colossus and the surface of the spherical ship expanded violently, causing even more terrifying vibrations. If it were someone else, he would have fallen apart long ago. Only he could hold on because he not only had a high awakening level but also had a recovery factor .

The Colossus armor was seriously damaged.

At this time, his Starship Colossus and Galaxy Armor were next to the medical ship, being quickly repaired inside and out by dozens of large engineering ships.

Chen Feng himself was even more shaken.

Before, he was holding his breath, as long as he was not dead and could still move, he didn't care.

Now that the war was over, he relaxed and rushed back to receive treatment with blood all over his body.

Tang Tianxin was not much better than him.

The only difference was that their injuries were slightly different. Chen Feng's injuries were on his body, while Tang Tianxin's injuries were in her brain.

In this large-scale battle that lasted exactly half an hour, her brain had to maintain extremely high intensity operation at all times, not only to take the overall situation into consideration, but also to be specific to regional battlefields and even some special combat individuals.

In order to reduce casualties as much as possible, she repeatedly used fine radiation to stimulate her brain, improving her battlefield judgment intuition and brain wave transmission efficiency. Even now, she has accumulated hidden injuries, her face is gray, and she is dying.

But what makes her most painful is not the physical torture, but the irrepressible sense of guilt that arises in her heart at the moment the war ends.

If her heart is compared to a real heart, the sense of guilt is the black vine planted on it.

As one report after another of war damage and casualties was sent to her, the black vine quickly took root, sprouted, and spread in her heart. The roots covered with barbs tore through the flesh and drilled into it.

Every time the roots probed down, they would bring waves of tearing pain, so when she and Chen Feng said the three words "It's over" just now, the tone of voice was so different.

For a moment, she wanted to draw her gun and commit suicide, but she wanted to see Chen Feng again, and she was thinking of her daughter in her belly, so she barely held on.

Now, when Chen Feng also lay in the treatment room next to her, the heart-wrenching torture was slightly alleviated.

At first, Chen Feng did not realize her change of mentality. After all, in the previous timeline, her willpower might be stronger than Chen Feng himself.

Chen Feng first chatted with her casually, telling her about the information he had just discovered in the bedroom array of the compound eyes, and then concluded: "We knew nothing about the compound eyes civilization before. When other people's warships turned in the air using curvature mode, I felt terrified and nauseous."

"We were played around by "Song of the World" again. The warriors died unclearly in the quantum entanglement before they got close. At that time, I felt like I was watching a supernatural horror movie. Especially when the compound eyes dropped the particle bomb from a distance, I can't describe to you how I felt at the time. The scene was both magnificent and terrifying, and my hands and feet were shaking."

"But now, I understand. Human beings' thinking capacity is actually very strong. When the human brain instinctively reacts to fear of unknown things, there is actually another psychological change. That is curiosity. The essence of fear is not to turn us into hamsters that are frightened to death, but to ignite our curiosity."

"The more we fear something, the stronger our curiosity is, and the more we want to explore the truth hidden behind it, just like the audience of a magician. Even if they know that the revelation of the magic will make the show lose its fun, they still always want to know why."

"After understanding why, whether it is curiosity or fear, it will eventually become boring, and you will feel that everything is just like this. This is what the compound eyes look like in my eyes now, and they are no different from the animals infected with Z bacteria in the great extinction catastrophe in the 26th century."

"Maybe the compound eyes themselves are just giant wasps from an Earth-like planet that were infected by bacteria Z and reproduced individually? It's just that they were born early, and the universe gave them enough time."

He said in a relaxed tone.

Tang Tianxin nodded gloomily, "I just read the analysis report of the Science Executive Committee. The possibility you mentioned is more than 50%."

Chen Feng turned his head, his eyes passed through the transparent cover of the two layers of the treatment cabin, and fell on her profile. His heart skipped a beat, and he secretly thought that it was not good.

Just now she had been facing away from him, so he didn't see her face. Now that he saw her profile, he found something wrong.

An hour ago, she was in high spirits, with hope and brilliance in her eyes, a firm gaze, and a strong confidence of a high-level decision maker.

In just one hour, her cheekbones were protruding and her eye sockets were sunken.

Most importantly, her eyes no longer had the sharpness they once had.

"How is Ou Qinglan? I just saw that the research center's space station was very close and had entered the enemy's range."

Tang Tianxin shook her head, "She's fine. She was lucky that the space station collected data and retreated in time."

But she immediately added, "But there were still some accidental casualties. Dr. Dong Shan died in an accidental explosion while analyzing the blade mantis's blade arm fragments."

Chen Feng was stunned, and the old man's disrespectful look subconsciously emerged in his mind. He also remembered the old man's passionate "Theory of Cosmic Memory" in the last moments of the previous timeline.

This time he obviously won, but he never thought that the old man didn't even have the chance to say a last word.

If he didn't ask, the old man would probably have left quietly in silence.

I don't know how many people died.

Chen Feng finally remembered to look at the casualties, and then he stopped breathing.

At this time, only one of the eight regular military war zones remained.

The casualties of the reserve army also exceeded 70%.

The total number of casualties was 29.6 billion.

Not one, not ten thousand, but one hundred million.

There were 41 billion soldiers who participated in the war, but only 11.4 billion remained after this war.

Chen Feng had previously guessed that the casualties would be serious, but when the statistics really appeared in front of him, he was still shocked.

He woke up with a start and suddenly understood Tang Tianxin's feelings.

He kept losing comrades in arms in one timeline after another, and his emotions gradually became numb.

Because he never expected to win, he firmly anesthetized himself and always believed that he would be able to meet these comrades in the future. So when he saw these people sacrificed, he instantly pulled himself out of the pain, and immediately threw himself into the next battle, forgetting the sadness.

When he firmly believed that he would see them again in the future, he had already lost the instinct to look back at those who were pushing him forward from behind.

I... I have become so cold-blooded.

"Alas!"

Chen Feng also sighed, for the dead and for himself.

He knew it was not good, but knowing is easier said than done, and it was difficult to change.

Tang Tianxin raised her hand with difficulty, rubbed her eyes, and said apologetically: "Sorry, I should have been happy."

Chen Feng was shocked. She actually developed a self-blaming personality?

He smiled bitterly and shook his head, "You don't have to apologize."

After thinking for a while, he said, "You don't have to apologize to others either. You didn't do anything wrong. You have perfectly fulfilled the responsibilities of a commander-in-chief."

Tang Tianxin knew that he had seen through him, "But I should have done better. It was just two hours, just a war... Alas..."

"We didn't start the war. Our technology level is too far behind. It's good enough to win. There's no need to demand perfection."

"But I was the one who gave the order." Tang Tianxin forced a smile, "In fact, I have learned all these psychological counseling things. I'm not a sentimental person, but the number of casualties was too high, really too high."

Chen Feng was silent for a long time.

He thought of a psychological trauma disease called post-war syndrome, which is a type of PTSD.

Many wartime heroes who killed people without blinking an eye on the battlefield did not escape, and they were still suffering from it many years after retiring.

The incidence rate of senior commanders is even higher.

Tang Tianxin's stress response came very quickly, a little beyond Chen Feng's imagination. It may be related to her overuse of the brain, and even more related to the terrifying number of casualties.

If humans set foot in the universe in the future and become a huge race that spans the galaxy and participates in larger-scale civilization wars, perhaps humans can slowly adapt to this scale of sacrifice of hundreds of millions.

But it's too early now.

Although human footprints have spread throughout the solar system, as long as they have not stepped out, they have not left the scope of earthlings and cannot be considered a cosmic civilization.

This is the first time that mankind has participated in a space war, and Tang Tianxin is the first true space war commander.

She can hardly find the experience of her predecessors to learn from, and she has not experienced the worldview of the universe civilization that has gradually taken shape after hundreds and thousands of years of influence.

In fact, she has become as strong as an earthling can be.

Chen Feng is an outlier. His life experience of jumping out of the dilemma of thinking does not come from the expansion of space, but from the deepening of time.

He has it, but others don't.

This is not a feeling that can be obtained by simply reading his memory video. No matter how immersive it is, it is not deep enough.

For the mother of the child in this timeline, the sacrificed people can never come back.

Tang Tianxin asked again, "Tell me, am I embarrassed?"

Chen Feng shook his head, "It's actually okay, you don't show this side of yourself in front of others. I bet that even if you were asked to return to your post to command the next war, there would be no problem at all."

"Yeah, of course." Tang Tianxin nodded.

"It's not time to relax yet, the solar dome is still there, cheer up."

"Okay, let's play a game of chess after we wake up."

"No problem."

The two fell into a deep sleep.

When a person is asleep, the body and brain recover the fastest, and this has been the case since ancient times.

About eight hours later, Chen Feng was woken up by "someone" in a daze.

He forced himself to open his eyes, and his eyelids were heavy, as if two lead balls were hanging on them.

This was the result of the rapid recovery drugs he had used previously and the forced overdraft without any treatment.

The medical staff were not kidding him. According to common sense, if he wanted to fully recover now, he would have to go through a rest period of at least several months.

Getting a new body would be useless, and the brain couldn't be replaced, and intracranial hemorrhage would still be fatal.

However, Chen Feng has a recovery factor in his body, and his recovery speed is much faster than that of ordinary people, and his tolerance is much stronger. At present, it seems that if he sleeps for another night, he will be able to recover to about 70% by noon tomorrow.

The person who woke him up was Fanxing.

"Don't sleep, I have something to tell you."

Chen Feng still wanted to sleep, so he didn't move or talk. He just replied in his heart, "What's the matter?"

Fanxing's next words scared him away.

"The quantum intelligence center of the compound eye is in that prismatic area. The engineers can neither open nor close it. The confrontation between me and the quantum intelligence of the compound eye has never stopped and has continued until now. Now we have to make a decision."

Chen Feng asked hurriedly: "What's the situation?"

"It's not ideal. Although I am not convinced, I have to admit the reality. In terms of the stability of the logical framework, data throughput and self-expansion capabilities, I am not as good as the quantum intelligence of the compound eye who has no personality at all."

Chen Feng thought for a while and asked: "Does the compound eye have a very powerful programmer?"

"No, the architecture of my opponent is completely different from mine. I am a product of human programming, while the opponent seems to be a product of simplifying biological intelligence and then digitizing it."

Chen Feng thought for a while, "'Song of the World'?"

"Yes."

"Alas!" Chen Feng sighed. He

was very angry. It seems that not only humans are absorbing the compound eyes, but the compound eyes are also absorbing humans.

This hand, which relies on the melody extracted from the human golden record to reversely deduce "Song of the World", and then creates quantum intelligence in turn, is almost as impressive as himself.

No wonder the main material of the spherical battleship is so old, with a half-life monitored as long as 500,000 years, but the things in the prismatic area look quite new.

The spherical battleship must have undergone an upgrade and transformation before it was deployed.

Chen Feng asked again: "So what should we do now?"

"My only advantage is the higher power, but the high power can only support my DDoS attack. If I don't want to defeat them with my own strength and continue to tangle with them, I can't beat them. When I am completely deciphered, I will definitely lose. Then I will be infiltrated and annexed by the opponent's quantum wisdom, and then..."

Chen Feng: "Will you become a part of the opponent? Will humans lose control of all smart devices?"

Fanxing: "Yes, there is no choice. All our weapons will become someone else's things. So I have to fight for my life. Before I take action, I just want to inform you. I'm not here to ask for your consent."

Chen Feng nodded sullenly, "I... I understand. Go ahead."

"Okay, goodbye."