Age of Cosmic Exploration, 4 Read online

  Copyright

  Age of Cosmic Exploration

  Author : Zhttty

  Translator : Lonelytree

  Editor : Lucas

  Copyright owned by China Literature

  Welcome to visit www.webnovel.com to read more free novels.

  Table of Contents

  Chapter151 Base and the Anima

  Chapter152 End of Combat

  Chapter153 The Birth

  Chapter154 Evolution

  Chapter155 Supercell

  Chapter156 The Arrival

  Chapter157 The Mother Nest!

  Chapter158 The ECS System!

  Chapter159 Mankind's First Space War!

  Chapter160 The Awakening

  Chapter161 Victory!

  Chapter162 A Slap on the Face

  Chapter163 Operation Celestial Wolf!

  Chapter164 Operation Start!

  Chapter165 The Dismantled ECS System

  Chapter166 Red Lightning!

  Chapter167 Lift Off! The Hope!

  Chapter168 A Shot of Hope

  Chapter169 Despair!

  Chapter170 Singing for Victory!

  Chapter171 Soul Singer

  Chapter172 The Truth…

  Chapter173 Super Organism!

  Chapter174 Virus

  Chapter175 During the Experiment

  Chapter176 The Past

  Chapter177 A Virus Apocalypse?

  Chapter178 Success

  Chapter179 Bionic

  Chapter180 The Confinement Order and Logging Order

  Chapter181 A Secret Meeting

  Chapter182 Embryo of the Mother Nest…

  Chapter183 The True Ending

  Chapter184 The Starting Plan

  Chapter185 Level 2 All-Rounder

  Chapter186 Governing Policy

  Chapter187 A Tour

  Chapter188 Training

  Chapter189 Feng Xiao Chen

  Chapter190 Love that is Blocked by Glass

  Chapter191 The Deceiver!

  Chapter192 Homo Evolutis and the Survival Training

  Chapter193 The Training

  Chapter194 Super Species!

  Chapter195 Red Armor

  Chapter196 The All-Rounder!

  Chapter197 Taming and Breeding

  Chapter198 Success and Infection

  Chapter199 Old and New Unified System

  Chapter200 First Aid

  Chapter151 Base and the Anima

  Yao Yuan followed the Hope Defense Unit to the battlefield. When they reached aboveground, the Black Star Troopers had already removed more than 100,000 aliens and had cleared a 10 by 10 kilometers ground. This prevented their transport shuttles from being shot down by the aliens. However, when Yao Yuan saw the ruins of the previous 2 shuttles smoldering, he crash-landed the shuttles and immediately ordered everyone out.

  Yao Yuan wore a red space armor, so he stood out quite fairly. It didn’t take too long for Guang Zhen and Ren Tao to spot and reach him. He caught up with them mid-way and asked, "Give me a field report! Any deaths?"

  Guang Zhen saluted, "So far… only 1 death, he died… in combat. The rest is still unknown because they’re still in combat."

  "Isn’t that a given? How else is the soldier going to die, tripped and fell to his death? Ren Tao, you’ve been here the longest, so give me an update. Also, explain what you do meant when you told Liu Bai that we’ve been tricked." Yao Yuan coughed.

  Ren Tao smiled ruefully. "Well, we’re holding up surprisingly well. The Black Star Troopers are unexpectedly strong, so I believe we aren’t in any danger at the moment. The actual number of fatalities that I predict will not be more than 10. However… I suggest you immediately send someone back to the Hope to ask Saburo, the Japanese doctor, to speed up his progress of producing a vaccine, or else there will be more people that die from sickness than in combat…

  "About the fact that we were tricked, do you believe these aliens appeared suddenly? That’s impossible. I guarantee they snuck over and hid themselves on the other side of this planet during the day. Since the sun is blinding on this side during this day, that coupled with the creator’s particle, it’s a perfect ambush plan."

  Yao Yuan frowned and looked about. "How about their numbers? Hmm… Never mind, I can see for myself how seriously we’ve been ambushed…"

  Yao Yuan whirred around and shouted, "Battalions 1, 2, and 3 gather within the shuttle’s isolator range!"

  The soldiers instantly separated into their assigned battalions and crowded orderly around the shuttle.

  Yao Yuan turned to Guang Zhen. "Ol’ Wong, you’re good at commanding, so I need you to stay behind and be the commander. Ren Tao will also stay as your strategist. In 10 minutes, Support Battalion B will arrive, and Scrapper Battalion C will arrive 20 minutes after that. I’ll leave the men and women in your capable hands." Yao Yuan saluted before leaving to join the skirmishes.

  Guang Zhen led Ren Tao to the front of the battalions. He hollered, "Battalion commanders and second-lieutenants, please fall out!"

  The commanders and second-lieutenants of the 3 battalions immediately showed themselves. Guang Zhen ordered, "With the shuttle as the center, spread out to secure a perimeter. Start setting up a base. Each battalion will be responsible for a 120 angle perimeter. Support the Black Star Troopers with long-ranged weapon if necessary, and kill any non-human threats that approach the perimeter!"

  The commanders and second-lieutenants saluted. "Yes, Sir!" Under the guidance of their leaders, the battalions started to mobilize. A circular perimeter was formed and the sound of gunshots rang throughout the battlefield.

  Guang Zhen sighed. "Do you know, Ren Tao? Military discipline is very much related to crowd psychology. If isolated, each and every one of the soldiers are brilliant in their own right, but when pulled into a crowd, they will often be dragged into doing stupid things. If one starts going off the rails, many will blindly follow. You’ve seen for yourself how much damage the 5 Survivors caused."

  Ren Tao waved his hand. "The Black Star Troopers have an inherent problem. I’m sure Yao Yuan has noticed that."

  Guang Zhen shook his head resignedly. "Homo Evolutis… they’re not trained soldier and yet they aren’t civilians. Ren Tao, you yourself are a Homo Evolutis; haven’t you noticed this problem? Hopefully Yao Yuan will be able to come up with a solution soon. If not, things might not end so easily next time. Don’t be so surprised; I know him better than you do. If the situation requires it, he will not hesitate to revamp the troopers. And trust me, the death count won’t be in the single digits then."

  Ren Tao opened his mouth but caught himself. He knew that this was not his place to comment. Therefore, he switched the topic. "By the way, your work isn’t finished, is it? Don’t you still need to send someone to hurry Saburo?"

  Guang Zhen quickly waved a few soldiers over and sent them to the task.

  Like a surging flame, Yao Yuan burned through the battlefield in his red armor.

  Yao Yuan had many reservations about this gaudy suit, but the designer, Bo Li, shut him down. "You have to prepare for situations where creator’s particle has been activated. Under those situations, you need something obvious to signify your presence since you’re the commander. Red is the perfect color; they’ll be able to spot you from miles away."

  Regardless, the body armor was specially made for Yao Yuan the all-rounder, so its functionality was even better than Space Armor Prototype 1.

  Its reinforced shell could withstand for about 3 seconds even when cut with the sawblade, and gaussian bullets would be blocked by an internal electromagnetic shield generator.

  The armor was fitted with 3 high-power batteries and not the 2 that were given t
o the normal armors. This was to support the special armor’s capability for greater speed. When Yao Yuan’s all-rounder power was fully activated, the armor could help him increase his speed to about 500 meters per second!

  In other words, his body would become as fast as a fired bullet!

  Its power was showcased perfectly in that battle. Like a cannon, Yao Yuan stormed through the alien horde, mincing every enemy that stood in his warpath.

  Witnessing this, Yao Yuan relaxed slightly. He finally understood what Ren Tao meant when he said that victory was already in the bag.

  Space Armor Prototype 1 coupled with the Homo Evolutis was truly a force to behold. The two supported each other in growth, making the Black Star Troopers a force to be reckoned with!

  If one was to tabulate combat capability, unarmed civilians would have power of 10, unarmed Homo Evolutis power of 20, civilians with guns would have power of 100, and Homo Evolutis with guns would have power of 500. In other words, the better the weapons he was paired with, the greater the Homo Evolutis’ combat capability.

  When a civilian was paired with Space Armor Prototype 1 and the sawblade, their power would be 1,000. However, when Homo Evolutis was paired with similar equipment, their power could reach up to 50,000. The difference was so big that you would think they are different species altogether… Wait, different species?

  Yao Yuan slowed in his onslaught and observed the situation around him. He himself only just found out how strong the space armor was, so how is it possible for the new Homo Evolutis to be so brave and willing to launch themselves into the midst of combat without prior knowledge about the strength of the combat suit?

  (Ol’ Wong… No wonder he hesitated before mentioning that one person died "in combat.") The thought flashed across his mind. However, he realized that the troopers were starting to come into their own. There was no shred of fear in their demeanor as they mowed down their enemies. In fact, there was even a sense of bloodlust surging through the troopers after they realized that the enemies weren’t as scary as they thought but were actually as fragile as paper.

  However… Many started to tire, especially Ying and Ebon, who had been there since the beginning. Their steps had gotten sluggish and their faces were suffused with a faint blush.

  "Ying! Ebon! Retreat to the shuttle! This is an order!"

  A voice spoke in their ears. The startled pair looked around them to search for the source, then they saw a red shadow skipping around a 6-meter-tall alien. The alien then broke into pieces. The shadow materialized into Yao Yuan, who looked straight at them.

  "I’m communicating with you through my Anima power. Retreat to the shuttle! Don’t make me repeat myself!"

  Ying and Ebon stopped short in their tracks and stepped towards the shuttle. Yao Yuan’s voice then sounded in every trooper’s ears.

  "This is Yao Yuan! Take down the giant alien that’s creating the electromagnetic shield!"

  -------

  Please visit www.webnovel.com to read advanced chapters!

  Chapter152 End of Combat

  One thing of note was that when Yao Yuan first created the Homo Evolutis Faction, there were rumors circulating around the Hope that its purpose was to capture Homo Evolutis as test subjects. There was a brief period of unease on the Hope. Nevertheless, the faction had come up with multiple interesting results in the past few years.

  One of the faction’s aims was to analyze each Homo Evolutis’ specialty, usage, effect, and future importance.

  Among the Homo Evolutis, the Perceptors, Seekers, and Thinkers were the easiest to analyze. According to the CAT scans, when these 3 types of Homo Evolutis activated their powers, their brain would go into overdrive, working 10 times faster than normal human beings. Of course, this was supposed to be fatal. They should have died from lack of nutrition or extreme body heat.

  That was prevented by changes that were found in these 3 Homo Evolutis’ genome chart. It turned out that strands of DNA that were thought to be useless coded a special protein when their power was activated. This protein helped to lower the strain felt during power activation. Of course, there’s a limit to the capacity of the protein since people could still die from overexertion.

  Simultaneously, the faction had found out the best method and time to train these 3 powers… Next would be the Whisperers, Animas and Diviners. The Whisperers were the backbone of the Academy. The Animas relied on something called the soul web. The concept of soul itself wasn’t even scientific to begin with, so it was hard to analyze this particular power.

  The Diviners had seen the most analytic progress among the 3 because at least they knew it had something to do with a sixth sense. However, because it was also something that had plenty to do with pseudoscience, it was hard to construct a scientific analysis around it.

  The most unique and most difficult to understand Homo Evolutis were the All-Rounders and the Deceivers. The All-Rounders had access to all the superhuman powers except the Deceivers’, and speaking of the Deceivers, the only Deceiver on the Hope was still in a vegetative state, so almost no progress had been made on these 2 types of Homo Evolutis.

  All of these analyses fulfilled one important purpose: to distill and replicate the Homo Evolutis strands in normal humans using chemicals, and that was to be the Homo Evolutis Faction’s next big thing… Human Modification Project!

  If used in combat setting, the Animas and All-Rounders were determined to be the most precious.

  Due to the presence of creator’s particles, communication had become incredibly close quarters, while the battlefield had only gotten bigger. In such situation, the Anima’s power was pretty much a cheat. The fact that you could have access to information while your enemy couldn’t was a big deal in deciding the sway of the battle.

  Therefore, after the 4th revolution, the Anima became a tactical importance, and the All-rounder, who also had access to the Anima’s power, only became that much more important!

  For example, with the arrival of Yao Yuan, the whole battlefield had a seismic change.

  First, the military morale was instantly raised. While the soldiers feared Guang Zhen, they respected Yao Yuan.

  Because Yao Yuan had performed his Anima power during military drills, no one was shocked to find his voice in their heads. In fact, they felt comforted. They quickly fell into position. With their Homo Evolutis leaders spearheading the charge, every team of 9 followed through with Yao Yuan’s orders.

  Before long, the electromagnetic shield aliens were annihilated. In the next moment, the medium-sized Gaussian rail cannon started firing. Without the shields, the layer of alien foot soldiers was punctured. Yao Yuan knew the wind of the battle was shifting.

  Even though the aliens still piled high like mountains, with each skirmish, Yao Yuan could see the enemy lines retreating.

  "Stop charging! All Black Star Troopers, stop charging and hunker down for defense!" Yao Yuan ordered with his Anima power. He noted the time that was shown within his space armor. It had been almost 10 minutes since he reached the battlefield. In other words, Support Battalion B was arriving.

  Battalion B was actually the Hope’s artillery and missile men. Unlike Battalion A, their strength was not in close-quarter combat or clearing perimeter but in large-scale long-distance assaults. For example, their Gaussian cannons were so powerful that it could shred through electromagnetic shields as long as the shield wasn’t generated by a battery as powerful as the Hope’s.

  After Yao Yuan’s order to stop charging, about 10 seconds later, the enemy too stopped rushing into combat. They started retreating. However, Yao Yuan realized that they were retreating with their fallen comrades in tow. As the mountains of aliens were cleared away, other than pools of green goop and broken flesh pieces, there were almost zero intact alien carcasses.

  Yao Yuan stood at the front of the troopers with his seeker power open. Then he whipped his head around. In the middle of the temporary base, a few more shuttles
were arriving. Without hesitation, he submerged in a world of silence.

  The material world slowly fell away, leaving behind an expanding emptiness. Gradually, he could feel his own presence. It was a fireball as radiant and warm as a small sun. After some time, other orbs of fire of varying sizes appeared around him.

  (Yes, that’s Ren Tao, Ying, and Ebon…) The emptiness around him gave an impression that time had slowed down, but in reality barely a second had passed. Thanks to his training, he entered communication with Ren Tao, Ying, and Ebon almost instantly.

  "Ren Tao, Ying, Ebon, this is Yao Yuan. Order Battalion B to initiate a blanket fire. I want those disgusting aliens to be out of our sight!"

  The trio jostled awake. It was Ebon who shouted, "Captain’s order: issue a blanket fire on the mass of aliens!"

  The other 2 chimed in agreement. They were within the range of the shuttle isolator, so Battalion B mobilized after receiving the order. A turret base to support the Gaussian weaponry was erected. Small and medium sized Gaussian cannons, Gatling cannons, Gaussian shrapnel cannon, and other long-ranged siege weapons were added and charged.

  "Small Gaussian cannon artillery unit, unit 1, 2… and 9 preparation complete! Reporting for duty!"

  The artillery unit leaders reported to the battalion leader through a communicator. Soon after, the commander also received similar report from 4 other medium Gaussian cannon artillery units and 3 Gaussian shrapnel cannon artillery units.

  "Fire!"

  The ground shook unceasingly. The bombs flew past so fast that the naked eye couldn’t capture their trails. Their targets were 3 spots of level fields about several tens of thousands meters away from the base. Each bomb fell like an asteroid hitting the planet. Even though the bomb shells were small and compact, the moment they hit the ground, several hundred meters of ground was leveled in a halo of dust. Even the shielded creatures weren’t safe from destruction… Furthermore, this wasn’t a single bomb drop, it was a carpet bombing. The terrain seemed to change before the troopers’ eyes… The bombing lasted for almost 20 minutes. A small troop took a shuttle to survey the area from the sky and they found 0 enemies alive.