Chapter 1 Recruitment
On the street, the sun shines into a residential area, and several cleaning robots are working along the street.

This is the Fourth District of the Blue Star Federation, a resettlement community for retired veterans.

An old man with gray hair but full of energy was sitting at the entrance of the community, surrounded by several children.

"Back then, when I was in the Second Corps, I would tear those alien bastards from the Second Channel to pieces every time we fought."

"Given the combat power of those alien bastards, I can't understand how they dared to open the transmission channel to invade the Federation."

The old man's name was Wang Fei, and he was bragging about his great achievements in the past.

But looking at his physique, he had the physical fitness of an ordinary person. Not a single kid believed Wang Fei's bragging that he could tear aliens apart with bare hands.

While boasting, Wang Fei glanced at the little guys and saw that they were actually drowsy. He said, "How was it? Was the old man handsome back then?"

After hearing what Wang Fei said, several children quickly cheered up and said, "So handsome! So handsome! So awesome!"

Hearing this, Wang Fei took out a few coins from his pocket and distributed them to them.

After getting the coins, the children boasted a few more words about Wang Fei's wisdom and bravery, and then left together.

Wang Fei was lying alone on a recliner, with a string of Buddhist beads in his hands, muttering to himself, "It's going to be so fast. I'll be a hundred years old in three days. A hundred years..."

My thoughts gradually flew away, and my memory returned to the day when Wang Fei was born.

That day, as the darkness before my eyes faded away, the shadowless light of the operating room appeared.

Wang Fei knew that he had traveled through time.

After his rebirth after the time travel, a timer appeared in front of Wang Fei's eyes, the purpose of which he did not know.

Countdown, exactly one hundred years.

In a hundred years, how many people can live a hundred years?

Fortunately, the world that Wang Fei traveled to had extremely advanced technology and the average life expectancy had reached 130 years.

Wang Fei can still see the end of the one hundred year countdown.

I just hope that this hundred-year countdown is not a countdown to my life span.

After he was born, Wang Fei did not behave like a child prodigy like other time travelers.

Wang Fei grew up peacefully and studied hard.

Wang Fei, who had a previous life, knew that the family he traveled through was just an ordinary family.

The easiest way to achieve class transition is to read.

Eighteen years later, Wang Fei was admitted to the Federal University of Defense Technology and officially joined the army.

The year he graduated, Wang Fei was 22 years old and was directly awarded the federal level 5 military rank.

Federal military ranks are divided into 13 levels, and those above level 10 are called generals.

Wang Fei graduated with level 5 and his future is bright.

But in this year, an accident happened.

In the entire Blue Star Federation, unknown passages appeared in thirteen areas in a row.

In the twenty-second year of Wang Fei's time travel, aliens invaded!
The Federal Second Corps to which Wang Fei belonged was stationed very close to the passage, and became the main corps defending the Sixth Passage.

The Second Corps suffered heavy losses and the Federation was defeated.

In the second year of the war, Wang Fei was seriously injured and retired from the battle.

In the tenth year of the war, the Federation acquired life technology from the aliens.

From then on, the war became a stalemate, and the battlefield was not even limited to Blue Star. At a certain passage, the Federation even attacked the other end of the passage.

But these have nothing to do with Wang Fei.

On the battlefield, Wang Fei injured his waist and the muscles in his entire lower body were extremely weak, making it difficult for him to even run.

Fortunately, the Federation had complete protection, and Wang Fei had a military rank of Level 5, so his life after retirement was not bad.

Now, in three days, Wang Fei will be 100 years old. I wonder if Wang Fei will get the golden finger at the end of this 100-year countdown, or...

Just as Wang Fei was lost in thought, the personal terminal in his hand, which was similar to a mobile phone, suddenly vibrated.

When I clicked on it, it turned out to be a text message, but the words were too small to read clearly.

Wang Fei took out his reading glasses from his pocket.

"【Federal Military Headquarters】Due to the intense fighting situation in the Sixth Channel, you have been called up and demobilized and reassigned to the Second Corps. Please report to the [Fourth District Federal Armed Forces Headquarters] before 6pm three days later."

Wang Fei's eyes suddenly widened.

What?
conscription?

Is it your turn to be levied?
Shouldn’t the federal military take a look at what he is doing?
Wounded veteran!

One hundred years old!
You demobilize people to fight in the war?
Is this reasonable?

Let those federal generals see if this makes sense!
Wang Fei's heartbeat suddenly quickened, and his 100-year-old body almost couldn't take it and broke down.

After coughing violently a few times, Wang Fei struggled to get up and sat up straight.

Open the terminal address book, click and dial.

"Hello? Old Zheng, the news from the federal military... what? You were also drafted? Also to the Second Corps? That's fine."

"Hello? Is this Lao Fang? Have you been drafted as well?"

"Old grudge? The old grudge is gone? Then it's all right."

There were three consecutive calls from brothers who had fought side by side with him in the Second Corps.

Two of them were called up. They were a few years younger than himself, but they were both old men in their nineties.

There is also an old enemy. Although he is a few years younger than me, he was seriously injured that year, which can be regarded as a fundamental injury. The old enemy who has not been in contact for a long time has become cold last year.

I looked at the last number left in the address book and hesitated for a long time without dialing it.

"Forget it. Maybe the countdown refers to my life span. I don't know if I can live to that time. I'll see if I can survive first."

Wang Fei sighed softly and put down the terminal in his hand.

I don’t know what the federal military is doing. They are recruiting soldiers who are about to die.

Second Corps...Sixth Channel...

As a veteran of the Second Corps, Wang Fei still vaguely knew the true situation of the Sixth Channel.

Although the Second Corps suffered heavy losses in the early stages of the war.

But in the tenth year of the war, after a breakthrough in life science and technology, the Second Corps counterattacked all the way to the other end of the passage.

Although it is still beaten back from time to time, the combat effectiveness of the Second Corps is obvious to all.

The Federal Ace Corps, truly worthy of its name.

While thinking, Wang Fei packed up his recliner and returned home.

Wang Fei has not married in these years. Since his parents passed away a few years ago, Wang Fei has been alone.

Wang Fei placed the lounge chair on the balcony, picked up a paper book, and lay down again.

As he turned the pages of the book, Wang Fei's thoughts gradually drifted away.

What will I face in three days?

Will the countdown end with death?
If it means death, that's fine, at least I don't have to face war anymore...

His thoughts drifted farther and farther away, so far away that Wang Fei flipped through the book for half an hour without realizing that he had held it upside down.

As I flipped through the pages, I began to feel exhausted.

Wang Fei lay on the recliner and gradually fell asleep.

(End of this chapter)