The Meeting and Contact with Ducao / The Taotie Civilization and the Crisis Facing the Super Squad
Military district.
Base screen.
It was playing everything that had happened yesterday.
Dukao and many others were seated inside.
Lena was among them as well.
"Lian Feng."
Understanding his meaning, Lian Feng paused the video right at the moment the armored man was captured.
Dukao stood up. "This is what happened last night. After Deno Three discovered the enemy, I immediately dispatched the local garrison. But after a brief period of calm, they launched an attack.
Our bullets could not penetrate their defenses, our shells could not hit them, while any strike from them could cause casualties. At the time, our troops would likely have had to pay a heavy price to keep them there. And if they had wanted to leave, it would have been very difficult for us to stop them.
Furthermore, it was not just Giant Gorge City last night. Tianhe City, North Star City... similar incidents occurred everywhere. It was just that most of them were captured."
After he finished speaking, everyone present fell into thought.
"Energy weapons, highly defensive armor capable of flight. If I'm not mistaken, they also invaded Earth's network," Lena said as she stood.
Dukao nodded.
"A standard spacefaring civilization, or an extremely deformed beast-form militaristic civilization," Lena concluded.
"Beast-form?"
"Uh, simply put, there was once a war. God River bodies—humanoids like us—defeated beast-forms and gained dominance over the universe."
They nodded.
"As for that civilization, according to General Dukao, it is called Taotie after Earth's naming conventions. It belongs to the Styx Galaxy, where there is a supreme main god called Death God Karl. He enjoys studying death, so the entire galaxy loves slaughtering to please him. Taotie, for example, is a civilization he deliberately supported—extreme, bloodthirsty, and brutal. That is why I called them deformed."
"Gods?"
"That's right. Gods. With