Year 4800 AD.
A hundred years after the complete destruction of Earth, the home planet.
Humanity finally tasted the consequences of war. After drifting in the vast universe for a century, they finally found a new home in the endless expanse of time.
It was a planet on the edge of the Centaurus constellation.
When it was first discovered, it was simply given the mechanical name KN - 2300. Now, the first group of humans to arrive gave it a new name - Earthstar.
How ironic.
"Human greed and lack of restraint led to the destruction of Earth a hundred years ago due to global war. Now, humans have given their new home such a name," a man paced back and forth on the podium, a lollipop in his mouth, but his tone was full of disdain and mockery. "The leaders of the New Generation Faction are so ridiculous."
This was a somewhat dim underground room.
In an era when human civilization had entered the holographic imaging age, a place like this shabby training room with only a blackboard and a quartz stone for marking was extremely rare.
The sound of a low - flying aircraft came from outside. In the dim underground room, there were only a few students sitting below the podium.
These were the last few loyal followers of the Earth Faction.
Their eyes sparkled with a faint light, which was especially bright in the dim underground room. Everyone present knew that perhaps they were the last bit of self - awareness and self - reflection of human civilization.
Because the actions of the New Generation Faction were almost like tearing off the fig leaf of the entire human civilization, fully displaying the greedy and predatory nature of humanity.
The man on the podium was Qin Huaiqiu. He was the last leader of the Earth Faction. At this moment, he was propping his hands on the podium, his eyes shining with determination. "The humans of the New Generation Faction have been blinded by material things. This planet was discovered less than three months ago, and mining sites and energy supply points have already been established all over the planet. Just like they sucked the life out of Earth, they've started to suck the life out of this planet too."
"Earthstar will be the second Earth!" Everyone present held their breath.
Qin Huaiqiu's voice became more and more angry and passionate. "Earth once nurtured single - celled organisms into humans. Humans drained every last drop of its blood in just ten thousand years. Now a new planet has been discovered. This planet is even only one - tenth the size of Earth. Look, they've already started!"
"Bang!" The door was suddenly kicked open. Bright light flooded in. Several miniature robots made strange clicking noises and rushed in from the door at high speed, floating in mid - air. In the center of each robot, the aiming dot of a miniature pulse gun was already pointed at the foreheads of everyone in the room.
A man with a semi - mechanical arm slowly walked in. His handsome face was backlit, making him look somewhat eerie.
"Second Lieutenant Sikong, this is the hiding place of the remnants of the Earth Faction," AnniDeacon's mechanical voice suddenly came from all directions.
Everyone present knew that AnniDeacon, the virtual intelligent computer center of the New Generation Faction, controlled all the network terminal services of the New Generation Faction. In this situation where the New Generation Faction dominated, AnniDeacon was almost everywhere.
"Well done," the second lieutenant snorted.
Qin Huaiqiu squinted his eyes.
He knew who this man was. Sikong Ting, the son of the head of the first major family of the New Generation Faction, and one of the power centers of the entire New Generation Faction, was in control of countless wealth and power.
Sikong Ting seemed to sense the hostile gaze from Qin Huaiqiu. He slowly walked up to him, flipped his wrist, and suddenly a short lightsaber popped out from the storage ring on his inner arm.
Qin Huaiqiu was startled and was about to take a step back when he heard a "click" from the miniature robot aiming at him. Immediately, he didn't dare to move a muscle.
"Huh?" Sikong Ting smiled and gently touched Qin Huaiqiu's face with the tip of the lightsaber. "Scared after hearing the sound of the pulse bullets being loaded?"
"..." Qin Huaiqiu gritted his teeth.
"Take them all away!"
Qin Huaiqiu originally thought that the Earth Faction would be completely wiped out like this. But when he was awakened from the sealed prisoner's cryogenic pod after being injected with a wake - up agent, he was stunned.
As the leader of the reactionary faction, he should have been injected with an overdose of euthanasia drugs in the cryogenic pod and died directly. But now someone had awakened him.
Qin Huaiqiu looked at Sikong Ting standing in front of the holographic floor - to - ceiling window and sat there without moving.
"How long are you going to sit in that cryogenic pod meant for killing?" Sikong Ting said, swirling the champagne in his hand.
Thousands of years had passed, and humans still loved this antique champagne from Earth, but they had completely abandoned their former home. Yes, it was the New Generation Faction that had rigged the vote at the Global Joint Conference and used over a hundred nuclear warheads to completely destroy Earth.
Qin Huaiqiu still remembered that day. He was lying on the window ledge of the spaceship "Hope", watching with tears in his eyes as the former Earth was detonated and finally turned into dust in the universe.
"What do you want?" Qin Huaiqiu asked warily.
"I should be the one asking you that," Sikong Ting said. "What are you Earth Faction people planning to do?"
"I'm not planning to do anything, because you're going to kill me and my students soon!"
"Do I look like that kind of person?" Sikong Ting slowly leaned back, and several miniature robots quickly came over to set up a stacked seat for him.
The so - called stacked seat was a seat that could be carried in nano form and taken out from a nanotube. If not in use, it would return to its nano form and be stored in the files inside the robot. Usually, when needed, it would be sent over like this.
"You haven't answered my question," Sikong Ting looked at him. "What do you want?"
"What do we want?" Qin Huaiqiu sneered. "We want Earth to come back, but you've blown it all to pieces."
"You New Generation Faction people are just a bunch of blood - sucking parasites!" Qin Huaiqiu said. "When we were drifting in the universe before, although I was in cryogenic sleep, I vaguely knew that you took advantage of everyone's sleep and emptied the resources of several planets."
"Now, finally, we've found a place where humans can live normally without an oxygen generator. But you've already explored the areas for energy extraction within three months? You might as well call yourselves space pirates instead of the New Generation Faction!"
"Hey hey hey, your words don't work on me," Sikong Ting spread his hands. "The elders in our New Generation Faction think like that. What can I do?"
"… What do you mean?"
"Nothing. This planet is nice," Sikong Ting said. "Do you want to join hands with me to get rid of those old guys? Then turn this Earthstar into what Earth used to be?"
Qin Huaiqiu stared at him with wide eyes.
"You're quite good - looking. How about you marry me? I'll transform this Earthstar into a small - scale Earth and give it to you as a bride price."