These are not things you need to worry about.
Dukao's words did not cause any change in Wang Ji's expression. He knew that Dukao was not just arrogant; there must be more to the story.
"Besides, even if you think about it that much, it's useless. You're just a soldier. Thinking too much will only add to your troubles." Dukao flicked his cigarette ash and shook his head: "What's meant to come will come."
Seeing that Wang Ji's expression did not change, Dukao thought for a moment and then sighed: "Actually, your concern is correct, it is a very valid concern. Nuclear war... but given the current situation on Earth, and the era in which Earth is living, who can really have a good solution?"
War, modern war, interstellar war, is not an era of wielding knives and axes or using a few rifles and millet. The real sword hanging over the heads of pre-nuclear civilizations is the terrifying nuclear energy.
A single hydrogen bomb can instantly destroy a city, affect a province, and wipe out millions of lives.
If hundreds or thousands of these were dropped, even if the planet didn't perish, all life would be easily wiped out in an instant...
The value of these nuclear weapons is not high relative to the spacefaring civilization, and even relative to pre-nuclear civilizations, they are not something they cannot afford.
Even with the current state of Earth civilization, the number of nuclear weapons it possesses would be more than enough to destroy ten times its own power.
In interstellar warfare, or when others come to fight on your homeland, it would be utterly ridiculous if your side did not seriously consider nuclear war.
As a qualified war commander, Dukao knew this was a very basic question.
But it is also the most unsolvable problem.
A space-scale air-to-ground nuclear strike is something that Earthlings cannot intercept, even if they wanted to.
Earth-level missile interception systems are not even worth mentioning; even if they were effective, an airburst of a nuclear bomb would be more powerful than a ground-burst.
Even if a super soldier like Wang Ji is incredibly powerful, he can only carefully block one, not ten, and even if he can block ten, he can't block a hundred.
Although the current situation on Earth appears somewhat chaotic and people are panicked, it can still be considered relatively peaceful and prosperous. The Tianhe Battle was won, and the Super Soldier Corps has been successful in its small-scale counterattacks time and time again. The Super Soldier Corps has also started participating in television programs to stabilize public sentiment. At least the order in China is relatively stable.
Although war seems imminent, the situation appears to be relatively stable.
However, Dukao, who once came from the god-making civilization of Deno, knew that Wang Ji, who could see through the strength of the Taotie army, also knew that this was just the last peace for the earthlings before the storm.
Just look at the millions of civilians who died in New York last time, and you can imagine the cruelty of future wars.
Millions of people, not millions of ants, but countless intelligent lives that were once alive!
They may be young people, elderly people, children a few years old, or babies.
They may be someone's husband, someone's mother, lover, or child. They all had their own loves and hates, their own wonderful or dull lives, everything they couldn't let go of in this world, and their deep love and attachment to life.
In the blink of an eye... they all turned into charred, broken, or mutilated corpses, or vaporized and vanished without a trace, as if they had never existed.
What is war?
That is the future, with countless deaths, corpses, and endless sorrow.
It is hell on earth.
To be honest, Wang Ji felt that he had long since escaped the fate of possibly dying in battle. At least when facing the Taotie civilization, he did not think that any Taotie unit could pose a threat to him.
This isn't arrogance; it's simply confidence.
He felt that even if someone suddenly blew up the Earth, he could still survive.
But what can ordinary people do?
Even if we take a step back and consider the practical situation, what would he do if Qilin's parents suddenly died?
Even with such profound pain, what would he do if Qi Lin suddenly died?
Or what if his parents’ graves are destroyed by the war?
Grief and indignation? Unbearable pain? Or boundless rage?
He has love and hate. What ordinary person doesn't have their own love and hate, their own sorrow and resentment?
He was once just an ordinary person, and he knew that ordinary people couldn't accept losing their own lives and loved ones, just as he couldn't accept the possibility of losing Qilin.
The saying "a fellow animal grieves for its own kind" applies to him; putting himself in the shoes of ordinary people is not difficult.
The most threatening future war, the possible nuclear war, would render everything meaningless in an instant.
Therefore, in Wang Ji's gradually expanding cosmic vision, this alien invasion, which seemed like the sky was about to collapse, was always a Damocles' sword hanging over his head, with the threat of nuclear war or similar large-scale destructive power.
For him, if there is no reliable solution to this problem, he feels that all future struggles may be meaningless.
No matter how strong he is, it's the same.
And this is only what they are facing with Taotie. The other unknown demons, who may or may not be their true enemies, are even more difficult to fathom.
"So you mean we can only wait quietly for the Taotie Legion to arrive, until their army marches into the solar system, and then, with a bunch of nuclear weapons in hand, they might drop a bunch of nuclear bombs from somewhere, at any time..." Wang Ji looked at Dukao, his brows furrowed: "And we have absolutely no way to deal with this."
They might suddenly decide they don't want to play anymore, or our Super Soldier Squad might be strong enough to inflict heavy damage on them temporarily, but they could just use nuclear weapons to wipe them out or destroy their entire planet, wiping us all out.
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