STARTING FROM THE PLANETARY GOVERNOR

Chapter 795: Chapter 437, Humanity Must Triumph_3

Among them were warriors, heroes, and even women and children. Zhu Zhengbao always told everyone to keep faith, “The Emperor will not abandon us. As long as we persevere, one day we will be redeemed, and the Empire’s Army will surely come. In the end, victory will certainly be ours.”

Long live Mankind!

This was not only propaganda—it was something he deeply believed in.

Without such belief, how could an old general, over seventy and riddled with injuries and sickness, have held out until now?

Under his guidance, over the past several months, the people had calmed.

In their situation of having nothing, they had established an encampment. Although it was small, and there were only a few hundred thousand of them, and even if a large swarm of Green Skins came, they would still have to run…

But at least, they had sown the seeds; over the past few months, the wheat sprouts had broken through the soil and were almost ready for harvest.

Witnessing these scenes, many could feel the hope and belief that Marshal Zhu had spoken of.

At the same time, they had made contact with several other encampments, each of various sizes. They had agreed to support each other, forming a strategic alliance—if they encountered Green Skins they could fight off, they would fight; and for those they could not, they would retreat to another encampment at least.

Just keep holding on, they thought. As long as they kept striving and enduring, they would surely see the day Marshal Zhu spoke of: The Empire’s great forces will come, and mankind will prevail!

And that day came even sooner than they had imagined.

On this day, early in the morning, Zhu Zhengbao was roused by someone calling out to him.

The person arrived, brimming with excitement, “They’re here! They are really here! The Fleet from the Empire has come!”

“What did you say?”

“Go and see for yourself!”

Zhu Zhengbao threw on his clothes and stepped outside the rudimentary building.

Looking up, he saw the weather was fine; the azure sky above him showed several shadows.

At this distance, the silhouettes didn’t look big or clear, but considering the distance, they must be enormous.

The old Marshal’s eyesight was no longer good. He asked someone to fetch him a telescope, and then he could see clearly: those were indeed ships belonging to mankind!

With the Marshal’s experience, he could even distinguish that they were human cruisers, and it looked like there were three or four of them!

This was definitely the main force!

The army had come! They were saved!

“Spread the word! Our steadfastness now has hope!” Zhu Zhengbao declared.

“Alright!” The people around him were also bursting with joy, “Actually, there’s no need to spread the news; everyone can see it for themselves!”

“Still, we must announce it. It’s a good opportunity to ensure morale,” Zhu Zhengbao said with a smile, his heart stirring with excitement, yet he remained calm, “Even though the army is nearing, and we have hope, danger still exists until the ground troops have landed and joined us. In this final moment of success, we absolutely can’t fail before dawn, understand?”

“Understood! I’ll go find someone to write this up, to boost morale! Marshal, rest assured, we will do all the work and hold the line as best as we can,” replied one of the staff.

“Good, go on then,” he said.

After sending his adjutant off, Zhu Zhengbao, still wearing a smile, continued to observe the sky through his telescope.

Our human ships are truly magnificent!

However, at that moment, he noticed a small black spot falling from one of the ships; it quickly caught fire upon contact with the atmosphere.

“Hmm? Is that a landing pod or a landing craft? It seems a bit too large, the size isn’t right… Are they rushing to land without conducting orbital bombardment first?”

The old Marshal was filled with questions.

Suddenly, he saw the small fireball explode within the atmosphere.

Had it been shot down by the Green Skins?

It didn’t seem so.

He observed the rolling flames, which did not diminish as one would expect from a destroyed spacecraft. Instead, they grew like igniting gasoline, expanding continuously.

In an extremely short time, the small fireball became a large one, and then spread into a sky full of fire clouds!

Even at this stage, the flames showed no sign of shrinking or extinguishing; instead, they hurriedly expanded until the entire sky within view turned from azure to a sea of fire!

The sea of fire continued to stretch, spreading downward and around.

All of this transpired in a mere few dozen seconds.

The entire encampment fell silent; the cheers that had just risen were now subdued.

Everyone stared blankly at the sky that had turned into a sea of fire.

Everything was happening quietly; Zhu Zhengbao could still hear the cries of insects and birds, the whisper of the wind.

But all his expressions had frozen.

If the current trend continued, in no more than a minute or two, the sea of fire would reach the encampment he was in; in less than an hour, the fires would sweep across the planet’s atmosphere, burning every inch of Temir II.

By then, the whole planet would become a ‘fireball,’ violently burning in the universe. The fierce flames covering the surface would continue burning for days to a month, consuming the entire planet’s atmosphere and oceans, killing every living thing on the planet.

Even if some lucky few managed to hide underground, in the mountains, in sturdy buildings, and escaped being burned to death, the complete annihilation of the ecosystem would make it impossible for survivors to continue living on a planet turned into dead land.

Temir II would go from being a rich and beautiful agricultural world to a Dead Silence World.

A Dead Silence World, a place categorically unsuitable for human habitation, whether an unaltered primitive planet or a devastated one—all were designated as Dead Silence Worlds.

In his seventy years of life, he had never once considered that what was only mentioned in rumors and records would one day descend upon his beautiful homeland.

Now, he understood what it was.

That was the Extinction Order from the Empire, that was the Skyburn Torpedo.

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