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This war was incredibly long, brutal, and bloody.
Both Earth and Mars have fallen into a period of decline because of this war.
—The war killed nearly 80 billion people.
This was the most serious world war in human history.
But even in such a brutal war, peace, unsurprisingly, eventually came.
Mars and Earth have decided that, in order to ensure that cultural issues between the two planets do not cause conflict or contradiction, they will agree to take measures.
Humans modified a new generation of humans, adapting them to the environments of Earth and Mars.
Although these people were modified humans, it was because of them that humanity truly ushered in peace.
However, these people are not content with just living on Mars and Earth.
So they terraformed Venus and successfully landed on it, becoming the "Venusians".
But humanity's journey cannot stop at the solar system.
Humanity's future is destined to be among the stars.
Humans, carrying human genes, flew towards the Milky Way in unmanned spaceships.
In this way, by using robots to reach other planets and then recreating humanity, mankind finally ushered in a golden age in the Milky Way.
Human footprints have filled the Milky Way's spiral arms.
However, the great distance did not cause humanity to lose its unity.
These people, with their diverse appearances, different living environments, and conflicting cultures, maintain close ties with their distant relatives through stable electromagnetic communication.
Yes, isn't that strange?
A brutal war broke out between Earth and Mars.
But now, even though humans are so far apart, they maintain a friendly relationship.
It's amazing.
Because humans do grow up.
They are united, friendly, and help each other.
If one world encounters an unsolvable problem, it can simply send the problem out, and people in other worlds will do their best to help and work together to solve it.
Even those worlds that are relatively close to each other will have trade exchanges and frequent contact.
This is the golden age of mankind.
It's not because human technology is so advanced in this era, but because when humanity ventured into the stars, it truly achieved peace.
It should be a glorious era.
An era to be proud of.
Humanity's glory became a joke after the arrival of an alien named QU.
They are nomads of the Milky Way.
It has a history of 10 billion years.
They travel between galaxies.
From one planet to another.
From one galaxy to another.
During this long journey, their technology also developed rapidly, eventually making them masters of controlling genes and nanotechnology.
Therefore, they imposed a religious-like mission on themselves.
— To reshape the entire universe.
During their journey, they discovered humans.
For QU, it represents humanity's technology, future, glory, and even life itself.
It's all just a joke.
It is nothing more than a tiny object that will be reshaped by itself.
Thus, starting from the Milky Way's spiral arms, QU began attacking humanity.
Destroy and annihilate everything that belongs to humankind.
To deny all human efforts over millions of years.
Wherever QU goes, everything humankind turns to dust and vanishes into the vast universe.
The QU are incredibly powerful, after all, they are a race that has been wandering in the universe for 10 billion years, while humans are just a tiny speck of dust that have just stepped into the starry sky.
Like a spark, it flickers and then vanishes in an instant.
Moreover, the destruction of these human civilizations by QU was not simply a matter of being destroyed.
These humans were also genetically modified by QU.
They were transformed into all sorts of non-human creatures.
A toothless, burrowing worm with a body only as long as a human arm.
But these insects are still trying their best to maintain their identity and thinking as humans.
Some humans have been transformed into enormous beasts, somewhat similar to elephants on Earth.
Instead of having long noses, they elongated their lower lips, developing them into muscular organs to compensate for their inability to perform fine motor skills.
Others were transformed into hybrids resembling vampires, ronin, and fairies; herbivorous creatures with bird legs; and cyborgs with long necks like moose or giraffes.
In any case, humans were transformed into all sorts of monsters.
QU arbitrarily modified, twisted, and deformed them into creatures completely unrelated to humans.
Because to the great QU, humans are just like lab rats.
Is there really a moral dilemma involved in using mice for experiments?
Therefore, QU is relentlessly transforming and destroying humanity.
Even so, human resistance remains unchanged.
What makes humans human.
It is that unwavering spirit that never gives up.
Those humans who were modified by QU are doing their best to maintain their human consciousness and thoughts, even if it's just a little bit... even a little bit would be good.
And those humans who have not yet been defeated—they have united!
They formed the last line of defense, ready to fight QU to the death.
This is humanity's last war.
It was a war of defense.
It is a war that will determine the future of humanity.
It was a war that was destined to be lost.
Chapter 83 (Extra): All the Future
The man known as the captain remained unusually calm in the face of war.
Or rather, he was unusually calm when facing death.
Their enemy, the QU, destroyed human civilizations elsewhere in the galaxy with almost no cost, and transformed them into non-human beings.
The gap between humans and QU is like that between ants and humans—there is no hope whatsoever.
But behind these humans lies their origin, the homeland of all humanity—Earth.
This defensive line includes the oldest Earthlings, Martians, Venusians... countless different kinds of humans.
They have all sorts of strange and different appearances.
Thus, they joined forces to deploy defenses outside the solar system, extending their defensive lines to Proxima Centauri.
Even so, there is no possibility that humanity can defeat QU.
This team leader is not from Earth, nor is his squad.
They are the Trisolarans from Proxima Centauri.
Because Proxima Centauri has three suns, the humans living there are called the Trisolarans.
But they were willing to protect the Earth behind them, to protect that homeland they had never seen.
Because, whether they are Earthlings, Martians, or Trisolarans.
They are all human beings.
They were prepared to die in this war.
Because if humanity is defeated, what awaits them is the fate of being transformed into monsters by QU.
Rather than that outcome, they would rather sacrifice themselves on the battlefield to protect their homeland.
Humans can never become something other than themselves.
Because we are human beings.
"Captain... In the next life, I mean if there is a next life, I still want to be a human."
The young voice, seemingly innocent, was transmitted to the captain's cockpit via the communicator.
...That was a Trisolaran child who had just come of age.
The team leader forced himself to smile and answered in a relaxed tone to avoid making everyone too nervous.
"Don't worry, little guy, we won't lose. This is humanity's strongest front."
The captain swallowed hard, his hand gripping the control lever tightening imperceptibly.
"Humanity will not lose...it will never lose."