Chapter 416: Edge of Tomorrow 2

Everyone knows that in a war like this, the first group of soldiers to land have the highest casualty rate, so William was initially reluctant to follow the photography team to land, partly because of this.

But William was somewhat confused after falling from a protected officer to being cannon fodder among the first batch of landing, and the nightmare that was so real that it seemed to have really happened.

William looked and listened in confusion, as if he had heard words in a nightmare. With a little mental preparation, his falling landing was a little better than his previous face landing.

But when he spoke out to warn the fat teammate who suddenly encountered an accident behind him, he was a step too late and watched the scene of the fat teammate being hit again.

He walked around in confusion and bewilderment, and when he saw Rita who had been ambushed and killed in front of him before, he didn't think much about it this time. He swooped over and knocked her down, finally avoiding the bomb that suddenly attacked from behind.

However, as he flew over and pushed the man away, he was also seriously injured by the bomb.

Facing William's call with a big hole in his chest, Ritas did not hesitate and took away the energy and batteries on his mecha...

In this era, there is of course no such saying as "looting with tears in your eyes" or "teammates offering sacrifices to the gods, with boundless magic power", but this particularly pure and unpretentious plot undoubtedly caused a burst of laughter of saccharine laughter at the scene.

After waking up for the third time, William took over and gave a long speech, telling them all the news he knew. He also said seriously that he knew they would lose badly tomorrow, and if they wanted to survive, they had to listen to him carefully. He looked like a prophet who was waiting to be stabbed.

In the next scene, he was physically silenced: Sergeant Farrell and Squad J used packing tape to seal his chattering mouth.

So William slowly learned his lesson, but in order to trigger new plots, he first started some operations that he had never tried before.

From failing to save his fat teammate, to flying over and pushing him away and then becoming a scapegoat, to successfully saving his fat teammate and continuing safely himself, William slowly began to challenge the action of saving Rita.

Through trial and error, he finally saved Rita before she was blown to death.

Rita was surprised to see that he seemed to have predicted the fighting style, and then asked him to come to her "tomorrow", and then stood there and was engulfed by the sea of ​​fire.

The next time William died over and over again and finally touched her training ground, she was doing Russian thrusts in the middle of the training ground. At first glance, she was as beautiful as a painting full of power and beauty.

But after hearing William's words, she immediately understood the situation: she once possessed such ability, which was why she achieved the miracle of "winning such a beautiful victory in her first battle on the battlefield of Verdun."

Those mechas were not something that inexperienced soldiers could turn into super warriors with just a little training. Instead, they needed to restart time and train countless times like she did before they could use the mechas to significantly improve their combat capabilities.

While explaining and warning William not to tell anyone else about this, otherwise he would be sent to a mental hospital or an autopsy room. Then Rita took William to a hidden room and introduced him to a person who believed that aliens had the ability to restart time.

Dr. Carter used to be the chief analyst of the Whitehall. Unfortunately, like Rita's, his analysis report on the imitator aliens was ignored by his superiors. Therefore, as someone who could not be used as a publicity figure, he was directly demoted to a mechanic in the recruit camp.

In Dr. Carter's analysis, aliens are a swarm-like structure. The ones with gray appearance and large numbers are ordinary soldier-type aliens, while the ones William and Rita had encountered were elite alpha aliens.

Going further up, Omega, the "brain", has the ability to control time. Once Alpha dies, it will trigger a chain reaction, allowing Omega to use his ability to restart the day.

Going deeper, the Battle of Verdun was actually lost on purpose in order to lure the enemy deeper into the country and make people, overwhelmed by the joy of victory, throw themselves into the war at all costs.

William was splashed with blood on the day he accidentally killed Alpha, so he replaced this Alpha. When he died, Omega would restart that day. In order to end the war, Rita hoped that he, who had the ability, could achieve the ending they wanted through continuous attempts.

During the special training, Rita told William another crucial piece of news: if he was injured in the battle, he must ensure that he died, because the hospital would perform a blood transfusion, and without enough Alpha blood, it would be impossible to trigger the time restart.

For this reason, if William suffers a certain degree of injury during training, he will be killed on the spot by Rita and the next cycle will begin again.

After a certain number of cycles, Omega will begin to investigate the situation, and then some mind-connected illusions will appear, allowing them to explore Omega's location based on the things in the illusion.

Based on William's description of the illusion and repeated trial and error to eliminate wrong answers, after countless cycles, Dr. Carter finally found Omega at the Canela Dam.

After finally working together with Rita to get through the beach level, the two of them hurriedly escaped from the beach battlefield. If they wanted to go deeper inland to the Canela Dam, they had to have a means of transportation.

After the two men killed the aliens who were following them with great difficulty, they drove away on the road in a wrecked car.

At this time, William's eyes had become serious and deep, completely different from the initial confusion. Feeling the warm wind, he suddenly started talking about some boring things, seemingly just to kill time.

But Rita doesn't want to talk to him because she has seen her former teammates die hundreds of times. So for someone trapped in time, watching important people die in front of her again and again is an extremely heavy psychological burden.

I have met you thousands of times, but you and I have only met for the first time.

"But he must have seen Rita die many times. Comparing the look in his eyes at the beginning and now..." Such a silent scene made some emotional viewers feel sad: William and Rita had been through life and death together many times, but in Rita's case, they had only known each other for two days.

After much difficulty, she found a dilapidated farmhouse where the fighter plane was stored and rested there to recover her strength, but Rita was already injured and tired.

Seeing William searching everywhere for keys, water, and weapons, Rita was really tired and would rather kill William on the spot and start the day over again.

But William insisted that she drink some coffee and relax before taking action.

However, Rita was also a seasoned warrior. From the moment she started to doubt him when he was making coffee, to the moment she knew she needed three packets of sugar, she could confirm that the two of them must have been here many times.

And she...should have killed William many times here.

There must be something wrong as to why William is stalling here.

"You can only live here at best. No matter how hard I try... you will always die here." Facing Rita's questioning, William finally took out the hidden key.

So William would rather let Rita stay in the farmhouse where she had food and drink, and then he would fight to the death himself - this was the only method he had not tried yet. With other methods, Rita would definitely die regardless of whether he could successfully fly the fighter plane away.

In this way, even if he succeeds in killing Omega in the end, the dead Rita will never come back.

But Rita is a true fighter. The reason she refuses to stay and let others fight for victory is not only to avenge her lost teammates, but also to end this seemingly endless war as soon as possible.

Even though she knew that William was in as much pain now as she was when she watched her teammates die and could only stop time for the sake of victory.

Therefore, only if she deliberately showed that she was willing to die in battle could William be forced to give up his original intention of saving her and let hatred inspire his will to fight.

After the two were killed again by aliens who were chasing them in the farmhouse, William, who woke up again in the recruit camp, had made up his mind.

If you take Rita with you, she will die in the farmhouse; if you don't take her with you, she will die on the beach - this is similar to the situation of saving the fat teammate before, but also different.

When he landed on the familiar beach again, he just looked at the fat teammate's cheers and the surprise the next second with an expressionless face, and then continued to move forward according to his plan.

Because the ability exists in the blood, and Omega, who sensed something was wrong, also wanted to eliminate William's "bug", so even though he came into the dam alone, the elite Alpha aliens did not take the opportunity to launch a sneak attack and kill him, but kept attacking him and injuring him.

Once he bleeds to death, there will be no way to trigger a restart.

After discovering this "truth", William, who had already prepared a backup plan, immediately pulled the ring of the bomb in his hand.

Back in Dr. Carter's small room, William told the two of them the news: the illusion was a trap, and the reason Omega set up this illusion to lure people with the ability to reboot over was to take back this ability from them.

Dr. Carter tried to make a transponder in the Whitehall. The principle was to refer to the information band between Alpha and Omega, put the transponder on the living Alpha, and then track the position of Omega.

But unfortunately, his "analysis" was not taken seriously by his superiors, and he was demoted to the recruit camp instead.

But now William is a humanoid Alpha, so what they lack is the successfully made transponder.

In order to get the transponder kept in the safe of the general's office, William and Rita teamed up to negotiate with the general, saying bluntly that they have the ability to restart time, and tomorrow will be a complete defeat, and humans will lose badly in this battle.

At the end of the confrontation, they got the repeater from the general for the first time.

Unfortunately, as soon as the two walked out of the White Hall door, they immediately encountered the situation where William was attacked when he went out before. Faced with countless black holes of various calibers, Rita made a quick decision, raised her hand and shot her teammate William first.

In the next scene, the two were racing with the repeater, and it was obvious that they were doing it all over again.

Using a repeater, they tracked Omega down and found that he was hiding in the Louvre, which was flooded. Before William could be happy, his car overturned in the fierce attack.

When the unconscious William woke up again, he was already lying on a hospital bed loaded with several ligaments and a blood transfusion bag was hanging above him.

As he was struggling to escape, Rita, who had also woken up, rushed over quickly. After using a dagger to help him cut open the restraints, she easily raised the dagger and wanted to give him another fatal blow.

William struggled hard and said frankly that he had received a blood transfusion and had lost the ability to recover.

This time, they only have one chance.

In order to kill Omega before the battle tomorrow, the two split up: Rita went to look for a plane, while William went back to bring over his teammates from Team J, who had seen them die countless times.

Originally, Team J had a lot of opinions about William, the "deserter" who had escaped again, but under the strange circumstances where they could not defeat him and William could tell them all their secret information, they began to have doubts.

Of course, the members of Team J did not dare to believe the statement that "tomorrow will be a premeditated massacre rather than an obvious victory" all at once.

So William brought up Rita - she had won the last battle at Verdun very beautifully, and it was hard not to lean towards the former when hearing her words of a hero and a "deserter".

Therefore, Team J finally believed their lies and followed them to Paris overnight.

As the plane flew away, Sergeant Farrell, who was mobilizing at dawn, walked over counting the heads and soon saw that the position of Team J was empty...

"Hahaha, the 'deserter' you brought over has abducted your entire squad!" The audience laughed uncontrollably at Sergeant Farrell's confused face.

The simple pleasant experience is over, but what the protagonist team has to face next is a battle of life and death.

Omega will always be guarding Alpha, and once Alpha dies, it will trigger a restart. The only thing that humans can surpass aliens is that humans can choose to "sacrifice" themselves for victory, but aliens will not.

Relying on the sacrifices of his teammates and Rita, he made his way to Omega, and William, who also had the mentality of fighting to the death, launched his own suicidal attack.

When the alien's nest was blown up, William, with all his weapons and armor removed, fell into the water. Even though it looked cold in the dark blue water that covered the entire sky and the earth but was thicker than water, his heart felt "peaceful" as if he had returned to the womb.

He thought he had finally found the end, but he never expected to be able to open his eyes again and watch the morning light fall on him. That feeling of warmth and tranquility was as if he were still in the human world.

This was his first time meeting the general. He came by helicopter. After the negotiation with the general failed, the general would have his men capture him and send him to the recruit camp as a deserter.

He died again in blood, and Omega restarted time in an instant before his death, moving the restart time forward and recording the time when he was about to lure the enemy to the beach.

Walking from the helicopter landing point into the crowd gathering area, the big screen above was broadcasting that the aliens had suddenly lost their previously powerful fighting ability for some reason, so the multinational joint forces were taking this opportunity to advance and regain lost ground.

The movie didn't explain the reason for this plot, but left it open to speculation. Science fiction fans generally have two theories about this plot: one is that Omega foresaw that he would be blown to pieces by human file-reading warriors no matter what, so he secretly ran away before the war started. As a result, the alien soldiers who lost their "brains" also lost the powerful fighting ability that came from reading files.

Second, Omega has been blown to pieces. In this world line, the dead Omega is really dead forever; and the male protagonist William just accidentally inherited its save point, so he came to this world line without Omega.

But no matter what, when William, wearing a major's uniform, came to the recruit camp with the photography team and watched the J-Team soldiers who died in the battle to destroy Omega's lair, many audiences outside the play smiled with relief, just like the male protagonist William in the play.

As William continued to walk inside, Rita, who was training in the training ground, appeared in front of everyone.

Compared to the last time when Private William came, Rita felt impatient and rude; this time, when Rita found that a senior officer was watching her outside, she stood up immediately, but her attitude was more impatient and confused: "What's wrong? What's the matter?"

The posture when he stood up was still elegant without showing any sense of strength, and his face was as proud as ever.

When the camera switched to William, he just smiled silently. Only his blue and green eyes reflected the starlight of life if only it could be like the first time we met.

It is a feeling that is difficult to describe. It seems that the person with these eyes loves the person in front of him terribly, but at the same time, he always knows in his heart: as long as she exists well in this world, he can feel happier than any other happiness.

It doesn't matter what else, it's just about truly loving this person from the bottom of your heart, transcending all the emotions that can be named in the world.

Although the lights in the screening room were dim, the looks from the people next to her, which were exactly the same as in the play, made Amami Yuki feel an inexplicable warmth in her heart.

During a reunion long after, recalling the past events of that night, Amami Yuki finally couldn't help but ask: "Why do you have such deep feelings for Mary, senior?"

"Because she made me see the light when I was most helpless." Nakamori Akina was a little stunned, then she chuckled and shook her head, "Maybe she and I are just like in that movie. To her, I am just a scenery that she happened to pass by, but to me, she is a ray of colorful light that I can only touch after looking to the end of the sky, which brought me away from the endless gray life."

"And my heart, apart from the music I have always loved, has only ever beat violently for her."