The stars, but they become the gray wind

"She said she didn't mind. We selected some female humans who we thought were suitable and had them become our kind to increase our numbers."

"It seems... she doesn't object, so that's easy." Aze breathed a sigh of relief.

"Cabot certainly doesn't object, but I think it's best to ask the person involved for their opinion on this matter, right?"

"After all, for them, this means completely abandoning their original human identity and truly becoming one of us, right?"

"As for this... I'll find a chance to talk to them later. However, considering the current situation and their future, I think if things go as expected, they'll most likely agree."

"Because in our view, they are 'special'. If they accept this choice, they will have the opportunity to witness the future of human civilization with us hundreds or even thousands of years from now."

Aze said silently while looking up at the sky outside the window.

"It's also... a chance for eternal life, and an opportunity to live forever and even see the end of the universe. For most civilizations at a very early stage of development, this is truly unique..." Calisi also sighed.

Just when the two were planning to enjoy the beautiful evening time, a message from Renlong interrupted their thoughts.

"Aze! Carlisle! We have something going on here, come over here!" Renlong's call came from the communication channel of the thinking network.

"Why are you calling us here so urgently? What's the matter?" He walked out of the two-dimensional portal with green light and came to the data center underground on the island.

"It's not a big deal. It just seems...some things in this world are unavoidable. Do you remember today's date?"

"February 8, 1904, how... damn, I almost forgot!" When today's date was mentioned, Carlisle suddenly remembered what happened on this day in the past history of her own world?

"Hmm...yes, it seems that war is still unavoidable in this world, but...we can make sure that the two guys who started the war don't have a good ending."

"So... you're planning to intervene militarily?" The purple-haired girl, who was very familiar with this period of history, obviously had no good feelings towards this aggressive behavior of the warring parties launching a war on the territory of another country, and she felt very disgusted and contemptuous about it.

"According to the intelligence we've received, tonight should be the time when those militarists will launch a surprise attack on the Russian Navy in the harbor. What do you two think?"

"What else can I think? Neither side is a good person anyway. If it were me, I would send anti-ship missiles to each of their naval fleets one by one and send them both into the sea to feed the fish."

"Anti-ship missiles alone are not enough. I suggest that we use the Alicorn's 600mm electromagnetic main gun to send small nuclear warheads one by one to destroy both sides' fleets and blow them up until nothing is left." Aze also agreed with Kalisi's idea.

"It seems like you two share my thoughts. I asked Yuki before, and she also wanted to give both sides, the aggressors, a terrifying warning, letting them know that any attempt to deflect conflict by launching a war of aggression will be met with a heavy blow from us."

"By the way, Yuuki also said: Only fear can make aggressive militarists understand the value of peace."

"She also told us that if we were to fight, we had to use heavy blows, preferably enough to beat both sides half to death. She said that this would be enough of a deterrent."

"I think what Yuki said makes sense. To deal with this kind of imperialist thing that invades integrity, we should strike hard, beat the other party half to death, and teach them to be good people." Carlisle gave a thumbs up to express her agreement with Yuki's point of view.

"Okay, since everyone agrees, let's get ready to take action!" Renlong clapped his hands happily and began to plan this deterrent military intervention.

"Considering the special nature of this operation, we need something intuitive enough. Remember those two wolf-binding ropes that Aze produced earlier?"

"Those two Flying Fortresses? I remember them being left gathering dust in the harbor's docking area after they were produced."

"Indeed, considering this operation requires a certain degree of secrecy and sufficient deterrence, the two Wolf Binding Ropes are the most suitable weapons and equipment for this mission."

"And Glepnir's appearance is also quite intimidating. The focus of this operation will be to instantly destroy all living forces on both sides with absolutely overwhelming firepower!"

"When the two fleets engage in a sea battle, I will first use SWBM shockwave ballistic missiles to destroy a portion of their land forces. Then, two optically invisible Glepnir aircraft will fly over the heads of the two naval fleets and send muon fusion cannons to each of them, sending them to their doom!"

"To deal with these aggressive guys, we must use heavy blows! Since they won't calm down, let's help both of them calm down."

"Let's completely destroy both sides' naval fleets as a small warning, and tell them that if they dare to cross the line we drew, we can make their entire country disappear from the map in an instant!" Renlong said as he raised his right hand and then clenched his fist.

"They only thought of launching a war of aggression abroad to divert internal conflicts, but now... this option will no longer exist!"

"If you still can't resolve your internal conflicts, then you'll be brought to justice by the angry revolutionaries!"

Chapter 100: The End of War and the Limitations of Teleportation (5000 words)

On the evening of February 8, 1904, two huge, pitch-black aircraft left their berths and drove onto the take-off channel next to the port. Driven by the powerful power provided by their high-speed rotating engines, they drove their heavy bodies gradually out of the water surface that provided them with buoyancy, slowly rose into the air, and headed their flight direction directly towards the Liaodong region thousands of miles away.

After taking off, the "Wolf Binding Rope" activated its full-band optical stealth device. After the optical stealth system was activated, the huge black body slowly melted into the air. Hundreds of accompanying drones, which were also in stealth mode, followed the two accelerating Wolf Binding Ropes and headed for the Liaodong Peninsula together. Just like the Gundam Exia, whose mission is to eliminate all conflicts, they went to stop the unscrupulous aggressive behavior of both sides of the war.

"Two wolf-binding cables have been confirmed launched and are heading to their combat destination. Estimated arrival time: five hours." Ren Long calmly reported from the command room of the newly built aerospace operations center on the island.

"Combat preparations are complete, and... do you want to give this operation a code name?" Renlong turned to ask Kalisi, who was staring at the holographic image.

"Operation code name... let me think about it... I got it! The code name for this operation should be Sky Blade, right?" Carlisle lowered her head and thought for a few seconds, then clapped her hands and said.

"Sky Blade? Is it a metaphor that we are like a sharp knife that will stab directly from the sky into the hearts of the two militarist aggressive regimes?" Renlong, who was sitting in front of the operating table, asked as he took a cup of steaming coffee from the water dispenser next to him.

"Well... yes, we must make the warring parties feel the pain after we beat them half to death, and warn them to put away their aggression. Otherwise, they will face more than just a beating from us next time." Calisi obviously had no good feelings towards the two imperialist countries that were about to openly wage a war of aggression on the territory of an innocent third country.

"Okay, that's the name!"

"I now declare that Operation Sky Blade has officially begun!!!" Renlong nodded and announced to everyone in a serious tone.

At midnight on February 8, 1902, outside the Port Arthur, a Russian fleet was patrolling the sea outside the port. At this time, three Japanese destroyer teams planned to launch a sneak attack on the Russian fleet outside the Port Arthur under the cover of night.

The three Japanese ships took advantage of the cover of night to get very close to the Russian fleet and suddenly fired 16 torpedoes at it. Most of them failed to hit any target due to the poor performance of the torpedoes at that time. Only three hit the still unaware Russian fleet. The huge explosion almost instantly severely damaged the three best-performing warships in the Russian fleet. Amid the flames of the torpedo explosions and the rising splashes of water, the war officially began.

What neither side knew was that a huge invisible black aircraft was quietly hovering over both fleets. All the weapons on board had turned on their fire control radars and locked onto all the surface ships below.

Glepnir was still waiting for the right moment, a suitable time to open fire, a chance to burn both fleets to ashes in front of the commanders and all the grassroots soldiers of both armies, and to completely deter both warring parties.

Thousands of kilometers away, in the Aerospace Combat Command Center on Taylor Island, Carlisle gripped the trigger of the gun in her hand and squinted at the holographic screen that was broadcasting the exchange of fire between the two fleets.

"It's not the right time yet. It's still too dark. Even if we kill them all, it won't create enough visual shock and deterrence. The best time for us to act is after daybreak."

"The locations of all ground positions and coastal fortresses have been marked, and attacks can be launched at any time." Ren Long, who was standing by, clicked twice on the holographic console, marking all the coastal fortresses and defensive positions of Tsarist Russia on the shore and inland with red triangle symbols.

"The positions of all Japanese naval fleets and troop transports have also been confirmed, and SWBMs (shockwave ballistic missiles) are ready and can be fired at any time."

"Tomorrow morning will be the end of both of them!"

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On the other hand, the attacked Tsarist Russia was in chaos from top to bottom. Even the commander, Stark, was still in the city enjoying a luxurious dinner with his men and colleagues, singing and dancing, and was completely unaware that the fleet had been attacked.

When the huge explosions and artillery sounds reached the city, Stark, the fleet commander, remembered to ask his subordinates about the situation in the port. The officers of the Tsarist Russian Navy fleet, who were also confused about this, could only answer that it might be live-fire shooting and fleet exercises.

It was not until dawn that the drunken Stark returned to the port and saw the burning wreckage of the warship outside the harbor. He realized that the fleet had been attacked and hurriedly took command of the troops' defense.

On the morning of February 9, 1902, the officers and soldiers of the urgently mobilized Russian fleet nervously watched the Japanese fleet looming on the sea surface in the distance. The guns on the Russian ships slowly turned and pointed at the distant Japanese ships. Propellant and shells were fed into the gun barrels. As the bolts were locked, the upward-raised gun barrels emitted a huge roar. The various calibers of guns on the Russian warships launched a salvo at the distant Japanese ships. The Japanese fleet, observing the fire from the Russian fleet's firing from a distance, also opened fire in return.

As the shells fell into the sea and exploded with waves, in the first round of calibration fire to confirm the distance, neither fleet hit any of the other's warships. After confirming the initial distance, the artillery on the warships of both sides adjusted their firing angles, reloaded propellant and shells, and planned to conduct a second round of calibration fire immediately.

The second round of naval gun calibration that followed once again created a large amount of splashes due to explosions on both sides of the warship formations. As expected, no warships on either side were hit in this round of artillery fire. Just as the sailors on both sides were about to reload the shells and adjust the artillery angles, the officers and soldiers on the ships of both sides heard a low buzzing sound coming from the sky above their heads. Other ships also reported to the fleet commander on the radio that they had heard the same sound.

"What's that sound?" A sailor standing on the warship's observation deck asked his companion in confusion after hearing the low buzzing sound next to his ears.

Suddenly, two huge black shadows covered the fleets of both sides on the sea. When they found that the sunlight above their heads seemed to have suddenly disappeared, the officers and soldiers on the fleets of both sides raised their heads and looked at the sky. Then, they saw the huge black aircraft that seemed to cover the sky and the sun.

"Damn, what the hell is that?!" The commanders of both fleets shouted on the radio in panic.

At this time, a sailor on the ship noticed that the huge aircraft above his head seemed to have undergone some changes.

"The disk below it seems to be glowing, what is that..." Then a violent flash of light, enough to blind the eyes, became the last scene that the sailor and the crew of almost all other warships in the surrounding area saw before they were evaporated.

Under the huge energy explosion caused by the meson fusion shock cannon, the naval fleets of both sides were almost completely evaporated in an instant. Under Kalisi's precise operation, one warship from each side survived the attack.

At this time, the captains of the two surviving warships of Tsarist Russia and Japan stared in horror at the two terrifying black monsters in the sky that had destroyed their entire naval fleet. These two behemoths appeared above the fleets of both sides almost without any warning, and created a column of dazzling blue light beam that instantly wiped out almost all the naval ships of both sides that were just fighting. Both the captain of the surviving Tsarist Russian warship and the captain of the Japanese warship on the other side looked at the black behemoth in the sky in fear.

"I...our battleship was just...evaporated by it?" On the Russian battleship, the captain with a frightened look on his face asked the first mate beside him in a trembling voice.

"I...I think...yes." The first mate on the side also answered with a look of fear in his eyes while staring at the black monster in the sky.

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In the Taylor Island Aerospace Combat Center, Carly looked at the screen showing the Japanese and Russian naval fleets being evaporated by the muon fusion cannon without leaving even a trace, nodded with satisfaction, and slowly picked up a cup of brewed tea from the table beside her with her left hand, raised it to her mouth and took a sip.

"The most important naval fleet has been dealt with, and now it's... you!"

"Lock on all naval vessels, airborne warships, and troop transports from both sides approaching the Liaodong Peninsula!"

"And then... please, go to hell!!!" As she said that, Calisi pulled the trigger on the joystick and ordered the two wolf-binding ropes thousands of kilometers away to open fire with their beyond-visual-range weapons.

"All SWBM missiles, target locked! Launch!"

After receiving the order from the Aerospace Operations Center, two Wolf Ropes opened the vertical launch ports on their backs. Hundreds of SWBM missiles flew out of the launch tubes with long white trails and flew towards the target hundreds of kilometers away at supersonic speed.

In just a few minutes, the missiles had flown above the target. Hundreds of missiles adjusted their rudders and plunged towards the target below.

A large amount of muon fuel was released into the surrounding air before the SWBM missile hit the target, and the disposable cyclotron carried inside the missile also started working. As the cyclotron ignited the muon fuel released into the air, a huge energy explosion exploded in the moving air fleet and surface fleet cluster. The shock wave propagating horizontally destroyed almost all the ships, and the crew and soldiers in them did not even know what killed them.

"All sea and air targets have been destroyed. Start clearing the enemy's coastal fire points and inland positions." Carlisle gave new orders to the two wolf-binding ropes in the center of the battlefield with a cold expression.

Dozens of specially modified SWBMs were fired from the launch tubes again, heading towards the coastal defense fortress built by Tsarist Russia on the coast not far away. Then, with a violent flash of light and continuous explosions, dozens of huge mushroom clouds quickly rose at the location where the coastal defense fortress was originally located. The shock wave generated by the explosion swept across the sea, causing waves. At the original location of the fortress, only a large pit caused by the explosion remained. The coastal defense fortress originally built by Tsarist Russia here to occupy the territory no longer existed. The military expansion plan that the invaders had painstakingly cultivated here for more than ten years was completely brought to nothing.

At the same time, in the Russian St. Petersburg Palace, the Tsar

Nicholas II looked at the image in the holographic projection in front of him in shock. On the sofa opposite him, the red-haired angel with wings of light and a halo on his head who appeared out of thin air in the palace looked at him with a smile on his face, and exuded a dangerous aura.

"The image above is real-time footage from our drones. All your troops in the Far East have been annihilated. This ridiculous, unjust war should stop."

"You are given two choices: cease fire and withdraw, or... die!"

Aze snapped his fingers with a smile on his face, and two drones appeared out of thin air in the room, aiming the four plasma cannons on their fuselages at Tsar Nicholas II who was sitting opposite him.

"Alexandrovitch, I know you are a wise man and a man who knows the times. I believe you can make the wisest choice."

"But... if you make an unwise choice, I will have no choice but to send you to see God." Aze, still smiling, threatened Nicholas II in front of him.

At this time, on the other side of the earth in Tokyo, Emperor Meiji watched in horror as his guards, staff and officials were strangled by an invisible force and held in the air, screaming in pain. However, the self-proclaimed witch in front of him was still sitting leisurely on a chair, sipping tea with a look of joy on her face.

"What do you think? Have you thought it through? Do you want to die? Or do you want to cease fire and withdraw?" The witch in a gorgeous dress and with purple hair asked Emperor Meiji in a slightly threatening tone.

"I... I agree to withdraw troops, but... please put them down first." Emperor Meiji swallowed nervously, suppressed the fear in his heart and said to the being in front of him who called herself a witch.

"Oh, you mean them? But when I first arrived, these guys wanted to order the guards to arrest me? Two guards even shot me. Shouldn't you give me some satisfactory compensation?"

"I apologize for their reckless behavior and ask for your magnanimity to forgive them."

"Alright, but you have to pay the compensation we agreed on. Otherwise... you should know what the consequences will be, right?"

"Yes... yes, I will try my best to meet all your requirements!" Feeling the murderous intent revealed by the person in front of him, Emperor Meiji replied tremblingly.

"That's more like it. By the way, let me give you a little news." Jie Cheng said as he turned on the holographic projection, which showed the completely annihilated Japanese naval fleet and army transport troops maneuvering towards the Liaodong area.

"Almost all of your troops in the Far East have been wiped out."

"This is just a small warning. If it happens again, I will make sure your country is wiped off the map!"

"Get it? Huh?!"

"Yes... yes!!!" Feeling his body trembling, Emperor Meiji bowed 90 degrees to the witch in front of him.

The witch with long purple hair in front of him just waved her hand casually, and all the guards and officials who were grabbed by the neck and held in mid-air fell down directly. Several staff members fell heavily to the ground and wailed in pain, but the witch with long purple hair didn't care about it. She snapped her fingers lightly, and a green two-dimensional portal appeared in the air. Before stepping into the portal, Yuki turned back one last time and gave Emperor Meiji a threatening and warning look, then turned around and walked into the portal.

1st Flag 8 Lin Qi…………

In the end, this Russo-Japanese War, which took place on another planet, ended completely in a way that terrified both sides. All the naval vessels and ground forces of Japan and Russia participating in the war were almost wiped out. The coastal defense fortresses and fortresses that the Tsarist Russia had painstakingly built on the shore for more than ten years were completely razed to the ground. All the troops were blown to pieces before they even saw the shadow of the enemy. Almost all the military presence of both sides in the Far East was completely wiped out. According to the news brought back by the only two surviving warships of both sides, they were instantly destroyed by two huge black aircraft. The weapons launched from the two aircraft easily reduced the entire coastal defense fortress to ashes.

The leaders of both sides, who truly felt the fear, withdrew their forces from the region and temporarily put aside their fangs of foreign aggression.

From that day on, the name Atlas became well-known not only in Europe but also in Asia. Even the ruler of a military power would feel terrified at the mention of this name, and would recall the terrifying witch who brazenly broke into the Emperor's palace and grabbed the staff and guards around Emperor Meiji by the neck like a chicken and held them in mid-air.

"It seems like you two are becoming more and more proficient in teleportation." In the lounge next to the Aerospace Operations Center, Aze and Yuuki, who had returned from Kalisi, poured themselves a cup of milk tea.

"No way? Isn't it the same as you?"

"The maximum distance for each transmission is only 1000 kilometers. Any further and there will be huge errors."

"And as the distance increases, the error range seems to increase exponentially," Yuki concluded.

"And we've tried this method over the past two years, teleporting directly into space. However, it seems that locating the teleportation point in space has become more difficult, and the maximum distance and accuracy of a single teleportation have become lower."

“That’s actually a huge improvement, isn’t it?”

"When I first figured out this teleportation capability by creating micro wormholes, the maximum distance of a single transmission was less than 500 kilometers. In comparison, in just two years, we have been able to increase the maximum distance of transmission by more than double. This is already a very outstanding achievement, isn't it?" said Calisi.

"I also asked Cabot about this. She said that the single-person teleportation ability we used on us isn't suitable for teleporting over long distances or opening two wormhole entrances that are too far apart. Once the distance is too great, the positional error between the two wormhole entrances will become very large, and they may even completely deviate from the target."

"Furthermore, if the distance between the two points is too far, it is impossible to accurately locate the coordinates of the exit at the other end."

"Her suggestion was that our micro-wormhole teleportation technology, even with extensive equipment, would only have a maximum transmission distance of around 5000 kilometers."

"Furthermore, the mass and volume of information and material that can pass through this micro-wormhole at one time are extremely limited. According to Cabot, the maximum mass of material that can pass through this single-person micro-wormhole portal is approximately 22 tons, which is roughly equivalent to one cubic meter of osmium. Exceeding this mass limit will likely cause the micro-wormhole to collapse."

"Personally, I think we shouldn't be too demanding of something that's clearly civilian technology. Otherwise, we would have already used the micro-wormholes created by portals to build something as outrageous as a closed time-like curve computer."

"If we really want to use wormholes to create products like closed time-curve computers, we may need giant wormholes created by stargates with a diameter of thousands of kilometers," Carlisle explained to her two companions.

Chapter 101: Probes and Civilizations from the Other Side of the Starry Sky (5000 words)

Just when everyone returned to the island with a relaxed look on their faces and thought that the matter was over, they did not realize that in this terminated war, more than hundreds of SWBM missiles exploded in the atmosphere, causing some unexpected hidden dangers. Although the effect of the SWBM missile is similar to that of a fuel-air bomb, it is a real nuclear weapon based on the principle of muon fusion. A huge amount of muon fuel is released into the earth's atmosphere in a very short time, and a cold fusion reaction occurs and explodes under the action of the cyclotron ignition device.

Although the cold fusion reaction created by just a few hundred muon fusion shock wave missiles cannot cause any visible adverse effects on the earth's atmosphere and environment, it is no exaggeration to say that the impact of these hundreds of muon fusion shock wave missiles on the earth's environment is not even as great as that of the hydropower platform located at the southern end of Taylor Island.

But... except for Cabot, what Calisi and others didn't know was that in the deep space of the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system above their heads, there was a pair of eyes from the other side of the starry sky watching the earth.

"A large-scale cold fusion reaction has been detected in the atmosphere of a suspected habitable planet... Analysis is underway..."