October 3, 2999.

Twenty-one-year-old Ding Hu finally completed his basic studies at the Third Earth Military Academy in the Solar System with qualified grades and became a fresh lieutenant.

Ding Hu had two career options.

First, he could enlist in the Solar System Defense Force and start as a combat squad leader. He would be trained day and night and always ready to fight the invading enemy, and slowly hone his abilities in a peaceful environment. Second, he could go

to the frontline battlefield at the Sagittarius Arm and throw himself into the dangerous battlefield. In the test of blood and fire, he would either grow quickly or sacrifice himself.

According to Ding Hu's own ideas, he was more inclined to choose the second path.

But his family and friends did not agree.

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After all, he is too mediocre.

Let's go back to 2978. In fact, when Ding Hu was just born, he received amazing social resource support, and his early growth rate was not slow.

Unfortunately, however, Ding Hu had reached the upper limit of his ability as a fighter when he was about twelve years old.

His talent was so mediocre that he could only barely cross the B-level limit at the age of eighteen after trying his best.

From then on, every potential assessment system left a deeper mark on him, indicating that the limit of his life was B-level.

No matter how many trials he goes through on the battlefield, no matter how many times he experiences life and death, he cannot change this belief. At most, he can only change from a fresh B-level player to an experienced B-level veteran.

He will never be able to take on important tasks that can influence the situation on the battlefield. He can only follow the large troops and do what he can. Maybe he is an inconspicuous fish in a big battle, or a regular troop that fights against ordinary enemies, or a garrison that uses his life to defend a place and discover some enemy raid intelligence.

Ding Hu is not dissatisfied with these evaluations.

As a firm practitioner of the Covenant of Destiny and an avid fan of the ancient sages, Ding Hu regards a sentence in the ancient sages' quotations as a holy book.

"Every inconspicuous screw has its value that cannot be ignored."

He was willing to be that screw and worked hard for it, until he suddenly graduated and had to face a new choice.

At the moment of graduation, the goal he had been striving for inexplicably became futile.

Ding Hu knew that he should not have such a ridiculous and wavering idea, he just couldn't make up his mind for a while.

He still had more than 20 days to consider, and he only needed to make a decision before midnight on October 31.

Ding Hu spent several days discussing with many people, including family and friends, some successful bigwigs, and many public welfare consulting organizations.

He even went to the Academy of Social Sciences of the Xingfeng Research Institute and talked to some well-known old scholars who helped others plan their lives for a long time.

Ding Hu wanted to find a way for himself to best realize his self-worth.

After running around for two weeks, asking hundreds of people, and entering the consultation library of the main brain Fanxing, Ding Hu came up empty-handed and did not get the answer he wanted.

With a bit of lingering confusion, Ding Hu drove a single shuttle to the foot of the Great Snow Mountain on Earth.

There is a memorial hall for sages here to commemorate the growth of the sage Chen Feng in many periods of empty history.

There are many digitized historical materials in the memorial hall, which record how Chen Feng gradually changed from an ordinary person to the hope of mankind in this ordinary training base.

Ding Hu likes this period of history very much. Whenever he feels tired, he will come here. He can not only temper his mind through history, but also cultivate his sentiments by looking at the beautiful scenery of the Great Snow Mountain.

The Great Snow Mountain Memorial Hall is a "privilege" unique to the human beings of the solar system. It can always get a certain degree of spiritual peace when needed.

And what is unique is that every time the ordinary Ding Hu sets foot on the land of the Great Snow Mountain Memorial Hall, he will feel particularly peaceful in his heart and his thoughts are particularly clear.

However, in the historical materials that Ding Hu has seen, except for the clear appearance of the sage himself, the faces of other people are very blurred, as if they have been deliberately processed to cover up the appearance of these people.

Ding Hu once asked his history teacher about this.

The teacher told him that this was indeed done intentionally by the Institute of Sages, in order to protect the people around the sages and prevent them from being disturbed in their growth.

After walking around the exhibition hall of the memorial hall, Ding Hu quickly climbed the snow mountain.

After more than half an hour, he put his hands in his pockets and his feet made a creaking sound on the snow.

The icy wind blew on his face, which was a little cold, but it did not bother him.

On the mountainside, the newly evolved snow-white eagle was flying slowly, as if hunting.

Ding Hu looked at the eagle with a little envy. Sometimes he envied these animals on the earth. Without wisdom, there would be no worries, let alone troubles. They were born in ignorance and died in ignorance.

Humans are different. They live in a collective from birth. Although they can enjoy resources that non-intelligent creatures can never imagine, they also have to face worries that non-intelligent creatures will never have.

The more you know, the more fear you have, and the more you have to overcome fear.

"You...you are Ding Hu?"

A woman's voice suddenly came from behind.

Ding Hu turned around.

A sturdy woman in a blue-gray technician's uniform stood below and looked up at him.

The woman had short hair that reached her shoulders and looked neat and tidy, with a curious and nervous expression on her face.

Ding Hu turned around and took two steps down, getting closer. "Yes, who are you?"

The woman suddenly turned her face away nervously. "My name is Liu Weiwei, and I'm a heavy nucleus collection technician."

"Oh, oh, hello, Liu Weiwei. How do you know me?"

Ding Hu wondered.

"That...that..." Liu Weiwei was a little stumped.

After a long while, she said, "We are neighbors, my house is downstairs from yours. When we were kids, we often bumped into each other when we went upstairs and downstairs."

Ding Hu thought about it, his eyes gradually brightened, "Little fat girl."

"Yeah!"

Ding Hu was happy, "I can't believe you've grown up to be so beautiful now. By the way, why are you here?"

"I...I just came here to take a walk and relax." Liu Weiwei lied.

After all, she is not a professional agent, let alone an actor. She is not very good at acting when she is nervous.

But she couldn't admit that a day ago, she received a message while working on the regeneration of Saturn's rings and building a heavy nucleon rapid circulation station. This news told her that Ding Hu, the little brother she had peeked at countless times when she was a child, had successfully graduated and could get married.

She didn't think too much about it. She took a leave of absence and took the solar system transportation network fast shuttle back to Earth, just in time to intercept Ding Hu here.

She came here to get married. But after all, she was a girl and was shy, so she couldn't speak for a while.

The straight man Ding Hu didn't understand Liu Weiwei's thoughts at all, but when he saw that the other party was actually a childhood friend, he invited her very enthusiastically: "How about we go shopping together?"

"Okay."

The walk of one person turned into two people, and Ding Hu's attention was distracted.

The two chatted for most of the day while walking, from some interesting things in their childhood to their current work and their prospects for the future.

"It's hard to be a collector, right?"

"It's not bad. Most of the time I just sit in a space office and work with artificial intelligence to deal with unexpected situations. It's definitely easier than for you soldiers."

"Hey! There's no distinction between high and low jobs, and there's no distinction between high and low contributions."

"Brother Ding Hu, you really like to quote ancient philosophers."

"Hehe, I don't have much culture myself, so I just memorize some things

to show off." "Hahaha, you're so funny. When I was a kid, I didn't dare to talk to you. I was always worried that you were too serious and thought you were very outstanding. I would get nervous when I saw you."

"Ah? Is that so? Then you flatter me too much. Maybe you're the only one in the world who thinks I'm outstanding. I've worked so hard, but I'm just a B-level fighter."

"There are still many people who can only be C-level. Like me, my combat talent assessment is D-level, you know, I am not qualified to join the army, so I can only be a collector."

Ding Hu: "It's okay. Collector is also a very important position. Just work hard."

"You too."

"Yeah."

"What do you plan to do next, Brother Ding Hu? Have you chosen?"

"I want to go to the front, but my family disagrees. It's not that they are afraid of my sacrifice, but they think that if I go to the front with my level, I will be a drag, and it will be meaningless if I die. They tend to let me stay in school, saying that I am quite talented in leading new recruits."

"Really?" Liu Weiwei was secretly happy. Since he was not leaving, the two of them should be able to get along.

"I agree. Since you have talent in this area, you might as well improve it. You'd better stay."

"But I... am not willing to do so. I think that instructors who have not been tested in the battlefield are just talking on paper, which is irresponsible to students. And I always feel..."

"Feel what?"

Ding Hu suddenly paused, and said slowly: "I feel that someone in the distance needs me and is calling me."

"Ah?"

"I can't tell where this feeling comes from, maybe it's my hallucination. Or maybe I'm too conceited. I always feel that fate has plans for me. This plan may make me die early, but if I don't complete it and don't try, I may never have peace in my life and be a walking corpse if I'm alive."

Liu Weiwei didn't know how to respond, "But...but..."

"But I'm too weak and can't bear any burden, right? Haha, I know. I'm very self-aware."

"So you still have to go to the front line?"

"I don't know."

The two were chatting when Ding Hu's communicator rang.

This is a global broadcast message.

He opened it and took a look, his face changed slightly.

The third choice appeared.

The real frontline sent back intelligence that the Sky Cave Gate in the Yunding Star Region of the Sharp Knife War Zone has been operating stably for two years. A large number of human fleets in the frontline have successively passed through the Sky Cave Channel and entered the Yunding Star Region to join the most intense battle between humans and the Compound Eyes.

Humans have to face extremely powerful Compound Eyes forces there, and the battle situation is very tragic. In order to prevent the reserve forces from not keeping up with the consumption of the front line, the Morning Wind Empire has already started the whole-region conscription involving the entire empire in advance.

From now on, all soldiers in the garrison forces of the rear galaxies can choose whether to sign up for the selection. The selected soldiers will enter the front-line reserve, and will go to the Folding Star Gate leading directly to the Sky Cave Star Gate while receiving intensive training.

Once there is a need on the front line, this part of the reserve force will be immediately deployed to the battlefield.

New recruits who have just graduated from military academies are also eligible to sign up, including Ding Hu.

Ding Hu was suddenly stunned.

His heartbeat began to speed up inexplicably.

There is no doubt that among all the battlefields of mankind at present, the Yunding War Zone is the most important, and there is no other.

Even ordinary soldiers with very low rights to know can know with a little thought that as long as the Yunding star field does not fall, the safety factor of the imperial headquarters in the rear will be much higher.

But in a battlefield of this level, am I, Ding Hu, qualified to fight?

Definitely not, I'm afraid I don't even have a chance to be selected.

But why do I have a strong sense of fate when I think of that place?

"Brother Ding Hu, what's wrong with you?"

"No, nothing."

"You are worried about something. Let me see what the news is. Hey, you are going to Yunding Star Region! Oh my God!" Liu Weiwei was shocked.

Ding Hu shook his head awkwardly, "It's just a thought, I'm afraid I won't be selected."

Liu Weiwei was puzzled, "Why? Isn't it very dangerous there? It's a life-or-death situation!"

Ding Hu asked back, "But now we still have hundreds of billions of comrades who are persisting there. Including the original expeditionary fleet, those predecessors did not think about coming back when they set out. The soldiers in the fleet that has been added now also know that it's a life-or-death situation there, but everyone still went. You can't say that you won't do it because you think it's a life-or-death situation. If every soldier thinks like this, what hope is there for mankind?"

Liu Weiwei lowered her head in shame, "I'm sorry."

"It's okay, I don't blame you. Isn't the job of a collector also dangerous? Aren't you still doing it?"

"Yes."

After a long while, Ding Hu said slowly.

"Ancient philosophers once said that the compound eyes are not our final enemy. Behind the compound eyes, there must be a powerful mastermind beyond our imagination. So sooner or later, we will all have to face a strange and more powerful enemy. Humanity's resistance is not a short-term war with easy results. This war will inevitably be long-lasting, extremely difficult, and there will inevitably be countless bloodshed and sacrifices."

"But the ancient philosophers also said that humans have ultimate potential beyond the boundaries of the universe. As long as humans can unite and fight generation after generation, everyone will remember that they are part of the wave of this era and will not stand out. Everyone will not be afraid of sacrifice and will do their job perfectly in their respective positions. They will move forward like Yugong moving mountains, and gradually bring out our potential and raise our limits. Then the relationship of the enemy being strong and us being weak will definitely shift."

"When this shift in the relationship of strength and weakness reaches a certain critical point, human resistance will be overwhelming and unstoppable. Humanity will definitely have that day, and now. The existence of the Cloudtop star field represents the transformation of the relationship of strength and weakness between us and the Compound Eyes, which has reached a certain limit."

"This is an unprecedentedly important node. As long as we win the Cloudtop Battle, we will gain a stage-by-stage civilizational freedom that was unimaginable in the past. The global summons means that the imperial leadership has recognized this. Although I, Ding Hu, am humble and insignificant, I am eager to go to the most dangerous battlefield, participate in the most dangerous missions, and make my greatest personal contribution. Regardless of success or failure, I will sign up and give it a try. If I can go there, whether as a soldier or as an instructor for new recruits there, I will die without regrets."

He was no longer confused.

After just over two weeks of wandering and searching, Ding Hu found his final choice.

Liu Weiwei looked at this man who she felt was her destiny since she saw him for the first time when she was a child, and her heartbeat accelerated.

She suddenly hugged Ding Hu, "Then you have to leave a child for your parents first. Let's get married! Brother Hu! I like you! For many years!" Brother

Hu's face suddenly turned red.

Ding Hu did not expect that there was a group of scholars in the Sage Plan who were staring at him and Liu Weiwei.

The scholars sighed.

As expected of the Sage's enlightenment instructor, he gathered two threads of fate at once.

One is his destined wife, and the other is the Sage's destined instructor.

The power of time and fate is incredible.