Chapter 213: Edge of Tomorrow! The Principle of Reset! Superluminal Particles!
Edge of Tomorrow Earth!
2020 3 Month 3 Day.

Western Europe is always shrouded in damp rain and fog in early spring.

The drizzle made the battlefield where the firefight was taking place particularly muddy and slippery.

boom--! !

The dense rattle of gunfire and the deafening roar of artillery fire turned the battlefield on the outskirts of the city into a cruel purgatory.

Flying dirt and metal fragments, accompanied by the continuous artillery shock waves, kept flying in the air.

"Well done, soldiers, you are so close to winning this war!"

"Now let's make a concerted effort to wipe out these alien bastards completely!"

"..."

Hearing the commander's orders coming from the communication device, the human soldiers on the battlefield suddenly burst into excited roars.

At this moment, a stealth AI reconnaissance drone that ignores radar scans and is completely transparent is flying high in the sky.

Under the observation of this AI drone, all that was seen was the chaotic battlefield filled with metal debris and wet mud.

A large number of soldiers wearing mechanical exoskeletons were following the instructions of their superiors in the team's voice chat and slowly advancing towards the urban area in front of them.

The buildings around them were already riddled with holes, with houses collapsed into ruins everywhere, and the soil under their feet was mixed with a large number of human broken limbs and internal organs.

Obviously, the battle just now was definitely not an easy one for the human soldiers.

It was a hard-fought victory with heavy casualties.

"Hiss—!"

Seeing that defeat was inevitable, the alien lifeforms that lost to the human soldiers also made a sharp and piercing sound, as if calling on their companions around to gather and withdraw from the battlefield.

Immediately, they used their many tentacles to grab the ground alternately and rolled away quickly like waves.

These black "venomous" life forms have glowing orange cores in the gaps inside them, and these are their energy-driving organs.

Humans uniformly call these alien life forms with irregular shapes, which can grow tentacle weapons or bone shields according to the battlefield environment, "mimicry"!
Snapped……!
At this time, a human soldier who was busy chasing shot and hit one of the mimics.

After the bullet hit the mimic, its body tissue shattered and exploded on the spot like broken jelly.

Before the mimicry could slowly gather together again, the soldier continued to shoot and shoot, shattering the core organs inside the mimicry.

After a desperate struggle, the mimicry collapsed completely to the ground, without a breath.

"Good job!"

The soldier heard the shouts of his teammates beside him.

Seeing that this mimic army had been defeated, the morale of the human soldiers rose to an unprecedented high.

The outcome of this war has been determined, and the AI ​​drone swarm has begun to take off and increase the distance, transmitting all these scenes clearly to the headquarters base.

Under the intelligent recognition of AI, these black alien life forms were not identified as living creatures, but as living weapons similar to the "Kaiju Beast".

Simply put, mimicry is more like a controlled weapon.

As for the people behind the scenes who control this group of mimicry, they are naturally life forms of a higher level!

As the AI ​​drone took off and reached an altitude of one thousand meters, a relatively hidden small star gate appeared in a dense forest in the suburbs.

Near the star gate, many large base station devices have appeared, as well as busy engineering teams.

In one of the temporary combat huts, several Astartes warriors were standing behind numerous holographic screens and control panels of military equipment.

The video and image data transmitted by the AI ​​drone have all been displayed on these terminal devices and uploaded to the headquarters of the Wanjie Base behind the star gate through base station signals.

In fact, as early as 12 hours ago, a fully armed Astartes ace advance team had crossed the star gate and arrived in the world of "Edge of Tomorrow".

Similar to the previous operations, after arriving at the new alien world, the giant company's engineering team first established a base station nearby to ensure smooth signal transmission and facilitate the headquarters to issue instructions.

The soldiers of the advance team continued to advance deeper.

After a careful search and investigation, combined with the reconnaissance of a large number of AI drones.

The Astartes warriors can basically be sure that the world on the other side of the star gate is another Earth in a parallel universe.

Judging from the equipment worn by the human soldiers on the battlefield just now, the development of human technology here is not much worse than that of Earth 002.

Even exoskeleton power armor can be equipped to soldiers, which shows that the development of military weapons in this world is still relatively advanced.

At this moment, the advance team soldiers have already figured out the location here. This is a desolate area on the outskirts of Verdun.

"Headquarters sent a new order to withdraw the investigators and return to the front-line base, leaving only a small number of drones for reconnaissance."

As soon as the words came out, the Astartes warriors who received the order immediately returned to the tents in the base.

Thanks to the giant company's powerful construction capabilities, the members of the engineering team have built the prototype of a huge base in half a day.

Basic lighting and power generation equipment have been connected, and numerous tents and air-conditioned halls provide a comfortable accommodation, work, and entertainment environment for frontline workers.

It is obvious that this will become an important front-line base for the giant enterprise and the headquarters of the giant enterprise’s troops.

At this time, Li Ang, who was supposed to be sitting in the rear of the Wanjie Base Headquarters, had changed into the same combat uniform as the soldiers and was wandering around the front-line base headquarters.

Accompanying him were all his trusted members, such as the original Mann Team, V and Johnny, Morgan and others.

"Everyone."

Li Ang turned around, looked at the people in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "As you can see, the enemies we are facing this time are some life forms similar to black asphalt."

"From the video footage just now, it seems that these alien enemies have been defeated. It seems that we will not have a role to play next."

"But in reality, this is just an illusion deliberately created by mimicry."

"The real difficulty is yet to come!"

"I hope you won't let your guard down for even a second, because this Zhutian Operation is more arduous than any other time in the past."

When Li Ang explained the situation to his subordinates with an unprecedented serious look and solemn tone, everyone with different expressions were slightly surprised.

It was the first time for them to see their boss treating this alien world so seriously.

But the video sent from the AI ​​drone shows that the "mimic" creatures here are clearly just like that when facing human soldiers.

Even if the mimic army deliberately retreats, it should not be difficult for humans to completely drive out these alien heretics.

But when it came to the boss Li Ang's mouth, it became something else!
It seems that the humans here will be destroyed by mimicry? !
"Boss, you mean... those alien life forms called mimics are deliberately using the strategy of making the human soldiers here relax their vigilance."

"Then it's a good catch, isn't it?"

Morgan Blackhand couldn't help but ask after thinking for a moment.

Ever since he heard Leon's words "surround three and leave one" on Earth in "Pacific Rim", Morgan, the commander of the giant enterprise's forces, has been cramming his knowledge of Chinese allusions overnight.

Especially the Thirty-Six Strategies in the Art of War.

So from what Leon said just now, Morgan immediately thought of the so-called strategy of arrogant soldiers.

Seeing Morgan's question, Leon just nodded to him as a response, and then said nothing more.

He didn't have time to explain too much to everyone, so he simply told V and others about the next action plan.

Li Ang sent these trusted members away and stayed alone in the headquarters command room.

Because he also felt a little unfamiliar with "Edge of Tomorrow", which has a slightly complicated plot and a novel setting of the world of the universe.

Being unfamiliar means there is too much unknown information.

This requires Li Ang to be more cautious and careful in making every decision.

He needs some time to recall this world.

At this moment, Li Ang was standing in front of the holographic screen with his hands behind his back, concentrating on watching the various videos and image information transmitted by the AI ​​drone.

He fell into deep thought.

This "Edge of Tomorrow" universe has been listed as the 003 universe by the giant enterprise, but the number of troops entering the star gate this time is not large, only a few thousand people.

After all, the enemy forces here are relatively single, and only Omega, who controls the mimic army, is Leon's real target.

If we bring too many troops, it will easily alert the enemy and arouse the vigilance of the human government here.

Unlike the Earth in "Underworld" and "Pacific Rim", the human government in "Edge of Tomorrow" has not collapsed due to the attack of alien creatures.

Therefore, Li Ang needs to take it step by step.

"Omega, mimicry, time goes back...!"

Leon narrowed his eyes slightly and began to recall a lot of information and details about the world of "Edge of Tomorrow".

According to the original plot, in 2015, a meteorite carrying mimicry life first landed in the city of Hamburg, Germany.

Then the alien species called "mimics" began to invade.

Under the invasion of the mimic army, Germany and France fell one after another, followed by the countries in the entire Western European region.

Due to the invasion of alien species, human countries established the United Defense Force, abbreviated as UDF, based on the United Nations.

In the five-year battle with the Mimics, the Defense Forces were basically defeated repeatedly, and the number of military and civilian casualties had already exceeded 2020 million. It was not until the "Victory of Verdun" in that the Defense Forces and the humans of the Earth were inspired to turn defense into offense against the Mimics.

That is the time point where Li Ang is now!
One of them was a female sergeant named Rita Volataski, who, equipped with a mechanical skeleton device, killed hundreds of mimics alone.

And this female sergeant with the nicknames "Battle Angel of Verdun" or "Full Metal Bitch" is the heroine in "Edge of Tomorrow".

"From the information just transmitted by the AI ​​drone, I should have arrived on the day of the victory of the Battle of Verdun."

“In that case…”

Li Ang was thoughtful.

The day of the decisive battle, in which the defense forces gather the human army and plan to annihilate the mimics in the cities of London in England, Brussels in Belgium, and Lausanne in Switzerland, is approaching!
But Leon, who knew the truth, knew that this was just a mimicry tactic to annihilate the human army.

Unlike human armies, these creatures are actually controlled by the same shared consciousness.

According to different types, mimicry can be divided into three specific types.

The first type is the most common black mimicry. Their role and status are to be cannon fodder responsible only for fighting and they are biological weapons.

These mimics will swallow the soil and replicate themselves just by eating soil like earthworms, thus achieving a constant supply of mimics.

In addition, the soil excreted after mimetic digestion will become a substance harmful to other organisms.

In other words, mimicry activities will also pose a threat to native creatures on Earth, leading to the deterioration of the Earth's ecological environment!
What’s even more exaggerated is that the center of the mimicked crack, where the orange light core device is located, can also fire out a sandy yellow spear bullet.

The disgusting level of this mimicry is no less than that of the Kaiju in "Pacific Rim"!
As for the second type of mimicry, it is the alpha mimicry that only appears among millions of mimicry.

Alpha is larger, stronger, and has a blue light core, which is the "central nervous system" of the mimicry and belongs to the advanced type of mimicry.

The third type of mimicry is called Omega, which looks like a sea anemone. It is the "brain" of the mimicry and has basically no combat capability.

When Alpha dies, Omega's "reset" mechanism is triggered, rewinding time to the previous node.

And Omega will have all the memories before the reset, so he can command the mimics and make more complete battle plans and deployments.

'These damn alien species are really treating the human army in Edge of Tomorrow as a game level! '

While complaining, Leon also felt deeply wary of this mimicking creature that also had the ability to look back.

Because the alien species called "Omega" is not so easy to kill.

If you want to kill Omega and obtain its reset ability, you have to succeed once, otherwise there will be no second chance!
In the original plot of the movie, William Cage, who has the aura of the male protagonist, accidentally killed an Alpha and absorbed Alpha's blood.

We get the mimicry reset mechanism.

But his existence is a serious "bug" for Omega.

In order to trap William Cage, drain his blood and fix this fatal "Bug".

Omega even implanted a false fantasy in the minds of all Alphas.

However, the final outcome was that William Cage used instruments to locate Omega's position and launched a counterattack.

After Omega's death, all the mimics that invaded the earth died, and William Cage, who absorbed Omega's blood, also returned to the previous time node through the "reset" mechanism.

William, the heroine Rita, and the members of Team J, who had died in the assassination of Omega, were all resurrected.

A classic "Happy End" ending.

So the most crucial question is, what useful technological points can Leon get in the world of "Edge of Tomorrow" this time.

And what exactly is the Omega in mimicry, especially the [reset] mechanism of Omega, how does it work!

Li Ang must figure out these issues before he can make the next deployment decision.

After all, if Leon followed the protagonist's example and exchanged extreme one-for-one with Omega, it would be just to get this [Reset] ability.

That means he really has to face the mimics face to face and "die" with his own life.

It was not an easy decision for Li Ang, who had managed to survive until now.

Although there is a system rollback function, you can start over after dying once, and at most you will receive some punishment.

But Li Ang was unwilling to die in obscurity. He did not dare to make any decision before fully understanding the mechanism and principle of [Reset].

'Among the technological points in Edge of Tomorrow, perhaps only the mimic Omega is worth studying.'

After thinking about it carefully, Li Ang found that there was really nothing in the world's technological field that was suitable for the world's giant companies to conduct research.

The technological level of the Earth in "Edge of Tomorrow" seems to be pretty good, but to put it bluntly, it is still an indigenous one, and the only thing worth seeing in the human camp is the exoskeleton armor.

At least there is condensed matter technology on the Earth of "Underworld", and there is also a giant mecha that can be built and played with on the Earth of "Pacific Rim".

The only technological point in this world is probably Omega's [Reset]!
"If we understand the principle of Omega's time reversal, we might be able to use the scientific hub to develop new technology!"

Thinking of this, Leon discarded all distracting thoughts and focused all his attention on recalling, trying to find details about Omega in the original work in his mind.

The function of the system and the star gate is only to refresh the world of the heavens for Le Ang, but it will not provide him with any reminders or help.

Therefore, Li Ang can only rely on the existing clues in the original work and his own reasoning to find the most realistic answer to the problem!

"Resetting the present, going back in time... Could it be that Omega is some kind of four-dimensional creature?"

This is Leon’s first guess based on the current situation, if Omega is an alien creature existing in four-dimensional space.

Then it can make changes on the timeline, just like humans facing ants moving on the ground, just by moving their fingers, they can make the ants return to the starting point.

But Li Ang was not convinced by this result.

After all, if the mimic species are really four-dimensional creatures, then attacking a three-dimensional human would be a piece of cake.

By simply tinkering with the timeline, we can change the fate of the human species.

There's no need to go through so much trouble and fight the human army for several years.

What's more, from the perspective of the universe, time cannot be reversed.

The direction of the universe is the direction of increasing entropy, and the speed is the amplitude of the entropy increase.

Perhaps there may be some negative entropy flows that can allow a few individuals to return to their old state, but this negative entropy is extremely limited in the universe.

If we just want to restore a single thing to its past, perhaps it might be possible.

But to restore to the extremely microscopic level and restore all things to their past state, more negative entropy is needed.

But at this completely uncontrollable quantum level, I am afraid that the entire universe system will face collapse and disintegration!
In other words, there might be a very small number of "chosen ones" who returned to the past in a negative entropy state, but that is only a possibility!

Therefore, Leon doesn't quite believe in mimicry. Omega would be a four-dimensional creature, which doesn't quite fit the current situation.

Since Omega is not a four-dimensional creature, it means that its [Reset] mechanism is not actually a true time travel!

'If Omega's reset is not a true time reversal, then could it be that some changes have occurred in memory?'

Li Ang suddenly thought of a possibility that was lower in cost and more in line with reality.

That is, Omega can use some "thing" to allow himself to stand in the perspective of a four-dimensional creature and see the progress of the entire timeline!
Then, in some way, I would implant a piece of memory information into my past self so that I could make the best choice.

This is equivalent to that Omega was originally just a three-dimensional creature, but through its own high-tech means, it can see what will happen in the future.

From the beginning of a time period to the end of a certain time period, everything can be observed by Omega.

Combined with the trigger mechanism of [Reset], the situation will probably be as follows:
When Alpha dies, the signal sent by Omega will travel through time, warning his past self of the danger and preserving the memory.

Therefore, the real function of Omega is definitely not to turn back time in the true sense, but to warn of death!

This high-tech is equivalent to a video recorder placed in the four-dimensional space by the mimicking species. They use this technology to record everything that happens in the three-dimensional space.

It just needs to be triggered by a unique "death" mechanism to see the entire process captured by this "four-dimensional video recorder".

This means that mimicry is not an omniscient and omnipotent "God". It also needs special mechanisms to see the truth of the future.

This speculation is the closest to the truth.

But the most fatal omission is that the male protagonist in the ending of "Edge of Tomorrow" "survived".

And he survived by [Reset]!
Logically speaking, the male protagonist should have died together with Omega!

If we exclude the option of a forced "Happy End" in the plot, it can only mean that a small number of negative entropy states happened to a few people, such as the male and female protagonists, extremely luckily.

However, due to too many people entering the negative entropy state, it became uncontrollable at the quantum level. The male protagonist retained his original memory, but the female protagonist and other members of Team J did not.

Considering the most realistic possibility, Li Ang is more inclined to the former result.

That is an extremely rare negative entropy state, which luckily will not happen again when [Reset] is triggered.

The reason why the male protagonist, the female protagonist, and the people of Team J were able to survive was entirely due to the male protagonist's own protagonist aura!

If it happens again, this negative entropy state will most likely not occur again.

Li Ang is not the male protagonist in this plane, so who can guarantee that he can have this halo and perfectly trigger negative entropy to ensure that he can survive and return to the time before his death?

"If that's the case, then what exactly is the key technology on Omega? !"

This is the key point!
Li Ang racked his brains and kept thinking. Amidst the chaotic and complicated memory information, as time passed, a string of words suddenly emerged in his mind.

[Superluminal particles]!
"Yes, that's it!"

(End of this chapter)