I'm the boss because I have a harem of anime characters.

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Vietnam, having been subjected to this for five years, must know all too well how resilient the insect swarm is in this regard, far surpassing even the monkeys.

You think that's the end of it? NO NO NO. You see, when the front lines seem safe enough, powerful figures will definitely secretly send their family members over to gain prestige. Qin Shan already has a list of all the factions and family bloodlines within the entire Celestial Empire. As long as these people appear on the front lines, even if they're just radar operators in the rear, there are nine ways to kill them. After all, it's a battlefield, and bloodshed and sacrifice are normal. If they die, they can even be recognized as martyrs. What a touching sacrifice! For these spoiled brats, it's really great.

However, we definitely can't go all out at the beginning. If we do go all out, we have to wait until we have enough people to wipe them all out at once.

"Let's go and see this new world."

Qin Shan waved his hand excitedly; it was time to check his haul.

Then harsh reality hit him hard.

"what is that?"

Qin Shan saw a building that was clearly not in the style of the insectoid swarm; it looked more like a fortress built by humans.

"Admiral, there's something in the sky." Xiao Zhai pointed upwards.

Qin Shan looked up and saw several meteor-like objects fall from the sky and crash into the ground. Immediately afterward, a large number of mechanical combat units emerged from the ground and entered the fortress, opening fire on the surrounding insect swarm.

The enemy's weapons were clearly more advanced and more brutal, with various energy beams densely covering the battlefield. From a distance, it looked like a rainbow covering the entire battlefield.

The four of them immediately hid on the nearby high ground. At this moment, Qin Shan's expression was no longer as relaxed as before.

He wasn't even sure if he had been exposed. Although ninth-tier superhumans were very strong, what if the enemy was an interstellar civilization? The thought of those super balloons spreading love and peace while sailing warships was worrying.

That's right, high-level superhumans can directly break through the atmosphere and enter outer space with their physical bodies, but apart from himself, a space-type superhuman, Qin Shan has never seen anyone else who can teleport faster than the speed of light. Moreover, when his space-type was at the ninth level, it would take him almost three days to travel from Pluto to Earth.

Being able to instantly teleport anywhere on Earth sounds incredibly impressive, but even if you flattened the Earth's equator and placed it on a cosmic scale, it would still be a tiny unit of length invisible even with a photoelectric microscope. Hey, didn't you ever think about teleporting to Mars in your past life? Taking others to Mars would preserve the human race, and a joint Mars-Earth civilization would sound amazing, wouldn't it?

Is it possible that the abyss expands along with civilization?

The things you're thinking of, many people thought of in Qin Shan's previous life. Qin Shan actually did carry out a Mars colonization plan, sending a full 100,000 people there in the first batch. Then Mars erupted into an abyss, wiping out all 100,000 people.

Even more seriously, a permanent abyss gate has appeared on Mars, and a large number of alien creatures have turned Mars into their new home. If you want to re-immigrate to Mars, you have to get rid of these guys first.

Later, Qin Shan also cooperated with researchers to build a lunar base and a satellite for survival in outer space.

Without exception, once the number exceeds five hundred, the Gate of the Abyss will appear. In other words, before humanity has the ability to withstand the invasion of the Abyss, there is no point in running away. It will only allow the Abyss to spread further and wider, eventually turning the entire living environment around them into a Shura field concocted by the Abyss.

What? You're saying it's fine as long as the number of people is less than 500?

This young master's idea is excellent. Someone, take him to Elizabeth Hospital, a designated medical insurance hospital in Tongliao, for treatment.

If we break all of humanity down into individuals of 500 each, and then have them run all over the world, the resilience of these people will be drastically reduced, and human civilization will collapse directly. Don't forget that modern industry is built on a large population. If humanity doesn't even have a standard population of 100 million, 90% of the industrial products and services on the market will disappear. If the population is less than 10 million, then forget about the stars and the sea; dying on Earth would be just fine.

Lexington.

"I'm here, Admiral. Shall I go take a look at outer space?"

“Yes, we need to find out what that thing up there is, and if possible, get one back, but our safety must be our top priority; don't take any risks.”

"Don't worry, Admiral, I will."

Qin Shan then looked at Xiao Zhai and asked, "Is it possible to hack into their system?"

Unexpectedly, Xiao Zhai directly told us, "I've already hacked in, although it was a bit difficult. Admiral, would you like to go in and take a look too?"

"I don't know how?"

"It's alright, Admiral, I'll lead you through it."

Section 51: Little Tirpitz's Hidden Skill

The world of the extraordinary is very magical, or rather, the technological means used by the extraordinary are beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

For example, Qin Shan is currently in a virtual world, but he can still feel what his body in the real world is doing. Xiao Zhai is in the same situation. The virtual space they are currently in is the virtual network of those alien visitors.

"Is this how you usually access the internet?" Qin Shan asked Xiao Zhai curiously...

Wait a minute, Xiao Zhai, how did you grow up so much!?

"Are you surprised, Admiral? This is a virtual world where I can freely define my appearance."

Here, Xiaozhai appears much more lively, changing more than ten different appearances in the blink of an eye, including virtual characters from ACG works, before finally transforming into Beizhai's appearance.

After all, they are both actually Tirpitz, just with different appearances and ages.

"It's truly astonishing. So, when extraordinary individuals enter this virtual space, things turn out like this?"

"We (referring to Beizhai) are like this. We don't know about others yet, but it should be similar."

"Then you can use your supernatural powers here too, right?"

"Yes, Admiral, just like that."

Xiao Zhai raised his hand, and something that looked like a wall appeared in front of him. Then Xiao Zhai snapped his fingers, and the wall shattered instantly.

"Was that...the firewall of the other system?"

"That's right, it was the firewall, and I forced my way through it."

Won't the other party notice?

"No, because I intercepted the alarm signal, so the other party doesn't know we've entered this area."

"As expected of Xiaozhai, you're really amazing." Qin Shan gave a thumbs up.

"Hehe." Xiao Zhai was very happy to be praised by Qin Shan, and then kissed Qin Shan with lightning speed.

"Consider this a reward, Admiral."

Qin Shan was taken aback. So, who's rewarding whom?

At this point, Xiaozhai had already begun the subsequent operations. A large number of projection screens instantly surrounded the two of them, displaying a large amount of information and data, which eventually turned into extremely simple 0s and 1s. This showed that the other party's computer programming foundation was also based on mathematical operations such as 1s and 0s, which can be referred to as binary computers.

Xiao Zhai quickly organized the information and said to Qin Shan, "Admiral, these people are from Earth, which is 30,000 light-years away. They are a country with a civilization similar to Earth, but their spaceships do not have the ability to travel faster than light. The reason they were able to reach this planet is because of a stable space wormhole. This wormhole can instantly cross a distance of tens of thousands of light-years, allowing them to bring their spaceships here."

"So they rely on God's blessing for their talent? How are their spaceships performing?"

"There are no weapons beyond our understanding. The main weapon systems are electromagnetic weapons, laser weapons, and chemical energy weapons. The most powerful weapon on the spacecraft is a tactical nuclear bomb with a yield between 100 tons and 10,000 tons of TNT. The spacecraft is a resupply point, a space base, and an engineering equipment. It has strong comprehensive performance, but its specialization is very poor."

Don't be fooled by all the impressive things Xiaozhai has said. You need to understand that the more comprehensive and all-encompassing the equipment is, the less practical it is on the battlefield and the less capable it is of direct combat. It's basically all about logistics, just like how you can't drive a base vehicle to fight off an enemy's armored onslaught in Red Alert.

However, in small-scale military conflicts, such complex integrated equipment has many advantages. The more it can do, the more the front-line troops can do, and the greater the support for the front. Therefore, these alien Earthlings' spaceships should not be called warships, but orbital bases.

What is their regime like?

"According to the data in the other party's database, the Free Earth Government is a great, bright, just, and democratic new era government, and the most civilized existence in the galaxy... (omitting three thousand words) That's about it."

"This propaganda is way too over-the-top. What kind of propaganda center is this, the North American Propaganda Center of the Third Reich?"

“I think so too. Didn’t the Admiral say that the more a regime emphasizes something, the more it lacks that thing? This Free Earth regime probably lacks freedom the most.”

What is their purpose in coming here?

"For the sake of Blood Crystals, according to research on Free Earth, they discovered a long time ago that Blood Crystals can enable some humans to break through their limitations and become more powerful new humans, so they need more Blood Crystals for experimentation."

"Experiments, human trials, you know."

Qin Shan sneered and narrowed his eyes, recalling some unpleasant things.

In his past life, the United States ruined itself in this way. That's right, blood crystals do have a certain probability of turning ordinary people into superhumans, but the probability is very low. Even if such superhumans awaken, it is difficult for them to surpass the higher levels in the future. In Qin Shan's memory, there was only one superhuman who successfully awakened and entered the higher levels by relying on blood crystals, and he was stuck at the seventh level in his life.

Perhaps there are better ways to make the vast majority of people extraordinary, but that hasn't been researched yet. In Qin Shan's previous life, extraordinary people accounted for one-tenth of the total human population. That was the result of three hundred years of accumulation. In addition, the brutal wars eliminated the vast majority of ordinary people, which led to such an astonishing proportion. Only when peace arrives and the human population can live and reproduce normally can the true proportion between extraordinary people and ordinary people be determined.

Qin Shan's goal is for everyone to achieve extraordinary things, but that's a long and arduous journey.

The language used by the Free Earth regime looks like Latin, but after analyzing the other party's language data package, it is not difficult to reverse-decipher and use the other party's language. The learning ability of superhumans is extraordinary.

However, learning mathematics still requires a lot of talent. That's why they say mathematics won't betray you; if you don't know it, you just don't know it.

At that moment, a message came from Lexington in space: "Admiral, the enemy ships pose a very low threat. There are no individuals above the third tier on board, and they have almost no anti-aircraft firepower. The vast majority of their weapons are aimed downwards. I am confident that I can take them all down."

How many of them are there?

"Four spaceships, roughly the same size as the Ford-class aircraft carrier."

As Lexington spoke, she transmitted live footage back, allowing Qin Shan to observe the spaceships up close.

To be honest, it's a bit disappointing. These spaceships don't have the grand and sophisticated designs of those in science fiction works. They're more like enlarged shuttles with a ring of constantly rotating compartments around them, and the weapons are mainly on the central shuttle.

What does this design indicate? It indicates that they do not have sophisticated artificial gravity devices, but rather create a gravity environment through centrifugal force by rotating the compartments. This is a solid physical structure, and such a movable structure, regardless of what weapon platform it is placed on, is a part that is easily detached after being attacked, and may even damage a large part of the structure during the fracture process.

Lexington had already infiltrated the spaceship when she witnessed a shocking scene.

Those gravity chambers contained a large number of living people in hibernation. On average, there were at least fifty people in each chamber, and more than seventy in the most. The frozen hibernation chambers stood there like coffins, and some of them were in a semi-unsealed state, with nutrient solution being delivered into them. This was to ensure that when needed, these people could be quickly put into the battlefield after only ten minutes of adjustment time after they came out of the hibernation chambers.

Aside from these things, the compartment was mostly filled with weapons, ammunition, and engineering equipment. The food consisted mainly of various synthetic foods and canned goods. Lexington casually sampled a few of them; the taste was merely edible, and the ingredients indicated they were nutritious. That was about it.

The Indian soldiers' diet is more lavish than this. Is this the attitude of the soldiers in charge? It's more like how they treat livestock.

The decorations inside the spaceship were quite rigid and extremely minimalist, lacking all unnecessary functions, and even entertainment functions. The only function that could be considered entertainment was watching patriotic propaganda videos from the Free Earth government.

No wonder these people are all staying in hibernation pods; the outside world must be so boring.

After confirming in Lexington that there were no high-level superhumans on these ships, Qin Shan had a bold idea.

It would be impolite to refuse a free spaceship that's offered to you.

Section 52: Mechanical Ascension

(Please give me some coins and monthly passes, comrades, hehe)

"Commander, the battle situation is favorable to us, we can launch a direct attack."

"Yes, very good. Have the first and seventh squads reorganize and consolidate their positions before attacking Sector B. I want to see Sector B turn into Free Blue by tonight."

"As ordered."

On the spaceship Justice Mission, Banmian (whose name is made by a friend in the group chat, Banmianjun UFO), who is wearing the rank of colonel, is admiring his masterpiece. Watching the map gradually change into his favorite color is a very fulfilling thing.

Looking back, he was once a killing machine who sacrificed his life for the free Earth. When suppressing the colonies, he dug more than three thousand mass graves. To demonstrate the power of the free world, Banmian liked to process the skulls of his enemies into exquisite works of art and display them in his room to admire. Occasionally, he would kill the entire family of some fiercely resisting guys in front of them, and then transform them into slave laborers with clear minds but bodies that could only be used for hard labor. Whenever he witnessed these cruel scenes, he would tremble with excitement and feel that his soul had been sublimated.

"The cause of freedom is a long and arduous one."

Banmian picked up his favorite skull-shaped wine glass, savoring the sweet grape juice inside, his complexion becoming increasingly rosy.

Judging solely from his appearance, Banmian is a handsome man, but the long and brutal battlefield killings have given his handsomeness a touch of evil, which is a devastating blow to some young women and girls. One look from him is enough to make them lose their composure.

As the commander of this small fleet, Banmian has a lot of work to do. To improve efficiency, his flagship is equipped with high-performance AI, and there are no human crew members. To be able to endure in such a lonely environment and make various efficient and rational decisions, frankly speaking, he is no longer a person, but a flesh-and-blood computer.

Today's victory still belongs to the freedom camp; the blue flag flutters in the wind, and the voice of freedom is so loud.

Then Banmian lost consciousness.

Young people are in great physical condition; they can fall asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.

"Admiral, I have taken control of four spaceships. Should we neutralize them first, or tow them directly to the island base?"

"First, dispose of it in a harmless manner. As long as it's dismantled neatly, there's no need to worry about not getting anything."

"receive."

Under the power of a ninth-tier superhuman, the four spaceships were utterly vulnerable and were quickly torn to pieces. Then, Lexington used the subsystem permissions shared by Qin Shan to open a portal in space and send these spoils of war back to the island base one by one.

At this moment, the Free Earth soldiers who were fighting fiercely in the base below suddenly discovered that their support system had gone offline.

"This is the first squad. Fleet, please respond. Fleet, please respond."

"Damn it, we can't contact the fleet."

"Did we encounter a space fleet of insects?"

"If that were the case, we should be under attack by now."

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a fierce barrage of artillery fire covered the area, as if a nuclear bomb had been used to shred the land, obliterating all the man-made structures and flesh and blood. After just one round of shelling, the soldiers of Free Earth were dead beyond any hope of survival.

The ones who opened fire were Little Rodney (Little Lolita) and Little Tirpitz (Little House). The eighth-order extraordinary power was still terrifying to them. Still thinking about the tides turning? They'll just blow the river dry.

After completing the cleanup, Qin Shan led the two little ones into the battlefield and packed up everything that could be packed at lightning speed. Their "three-light technique"—clearing the sky and sinking the ground—would put even the Japanese to shame. After all, the Japanese could only demolish the villagers' houses at most, but Qin Shan didn't even spare the wall panels in the Free Earth base.

When the three left, the land was completely clean and white. The man-made buildings had not even left a foundation. Apart from the temporary trenches dug by humans, the area had returned to its natural state.

This is called the "Clean Plate Campaign," meaning we shouldn't waste even a single grain of rice.

"Northern House, there's something good here!"

Upon returning to the island base, Qin Shan couldn't wait to call Bei Zhai over. She and Xiao Zhai were Qin Shan's technical experts, and it was up to them to extract usable technology from the spoils.

Xiao Zhai and Bei Zhai directed the humanoids they had previously seized from World Two to move the items on them. The hibernation pods were left untouched for the time being, but the fleet commander was dragged onto the testing platform first.

After all, they are newly discovered aliens; let's study them first.

Of course, no biopsies or anything like that are needed; just go through the normal medical examination process. Then Qin Shan was shocked.