From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 5 [Reset] Ability

Inside the office.

Sui Yang stood by the observation window with his hands behind his back, looking at the scenery outside the building and lost in thought.

Looking along his line of sight, one can see the clear blue sky on a bright afternoon and the abandoned village surrounded by dense red trees.

However, there is a 14 x 14 meter "mercury mirror" in the central square of the village, and the houses have been simply renovated. With the equipment boxes piled in the corners, military SUVs, pickup trucks and other vehicles parked between the streets, all It shows that this place has been temporarily requisitioned by Atlas.

This village is actually the foothold that connects the "Main Universe" and the "Zero-One Universe", and the "mercury mirror" where people are constantly coming in and out is the first space door.

In order to facilitate subsequent archiving and statistics, Sui Yang called the world he traveled through and lived in for more than a hundred years the "Main Universe". As for the "Edge of Tomorrow" world in front of him, he called it the "Zero-One Universe".

The content displayed on the computer screen on the desk also shows the importance of convenience;
  File name: Zero One Universe.

Status: Continuously updating.

Main universe, June 1993, 6, Pacific time.

At 13:32, the Atlas core team discovered the remains of an unknown civilization.

At 14:14, the first space door was opened by the owner of Atlas (ATLAS Corporation Owner) through some kind of blood sacrifice ceremony.

At 15:20, the Alpha advance team crossed the space gate.

At 15:30, the wired base station was completed.

At 15:35, the Alpha advance team completed testing and analysis of the air and soil. The results showed that there is no need to worry about infection problems in a short time.

At 16:20, scientific research director Wang Zhaofeng concluded based on the physical condition of the α advance team and the results of preliminary research that the space door has a "disinfection" function, which can effectively avoid biological invasion and personnel infection.

However, Supervisor Wang Zhaofeng still recommends that exposed staff need to wear level 1 or above respiratory filtering devices.

At 16:35, the Atlas Engineering Department crossed the space gate and officially started the construction of the frontline base.

16:40, Alpha advance team continues to explore...

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At 17:42, the drone captured footage of the battle...

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Main Universe, June 6th/Zero-One Universe, March 7th.

At 09:12, two Atlas investigators, ■■ Chersky and ■■ Johnson, successfully obtained some information about Earth Zero- through forged civilian identities.

The hours, minutes and seconds of Zero-One Earth are synchronized with the main universe Earth, but the year, month and day are 27 years apart, which is March 2020, 3.

After investigation, it was learned that an orange meteorite fell into Hamburg, Germany on September 2015, 9. After that, alien species officially called "mimics" by Zero-One Humanity began to invade.

Germany fell first, followed by France, and then all of western Europe.

Due to the invasion of alien species, mankind temporarily ended its internal fighting and established the United Defense Force (UDF) based on the United Nations.

Within five years, the UDF had rarely won a battle and suffered more than 10 million military and civilian casualties.

It was not until the victory of Verdun on March 2020, 3 that the UDF and Zero-One Humanity finally turned from defense to offense. At the same time, the Battle of Verdun was also the first war in which the UDF put "mechanical skeletons" into large-scale use. Moreover, two investigators also lied to several soldiers who were drinking that a sergeant named Rita Wolataski used a new mechanical skeleton to successfully kill hundreds of mimics by herself. Therefore, she was called the "Battle Angel of Verdun", and the more widely known nickname in the military camp was the "Full Metal Bitch".

Currently, the UDF seems to be concentrating its forces in London, England, Brusselsville, Belgium, and Lausanne, Switzerland, preparing to annihilate Mimic in one fell swoop.

The exact timing of the counterattack cannot be determined, but according to two investigators...

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"Click~."

As the sound of a left mouse click was heard, the document was closed, leaving the screen with a black background and a desktop with a red "Λ" logo floating in the center.

It turned out that Sui Yang had already sat back behind his desk.

As a time traveler, when he observed the battle scenes between UDF soldiers and mimics through a drone, as well as the keyword "Victory of Verdun", he judged that Universe Zero-1 was the movie version of "Edge of Tomorrow".

To be on the safe side, he still sent a number of close investigators to the UK, Belgium and other regions, and the intelligence returned further confirmed his suspicions.

Just talking about the movie "Edge of Tomorrow", it is definitely famous in Sui Yang's heart. He is not satisfied after watching the theatrical version. Every once in a while, he will dig it out and watch it again.

But if you are a human being in the movie, especially if you know the true identity of the mimic creature but do not have the ability to "reset", you will just feel despair.

As Dr. Carter, who was dismissed as the UDF commander, said, "An enemy that can predict the future is almost impossible to defeat."

Mimicry is not like the human army, where every unit and every soldier has its own intelligence, but rather it should be treated as a "single creature".

Seemingly endless, Mimics with orange cores resemble human fists and feet, responsible for attack, construction, and "cannon fodder" duties.

These mimics only need to use local materials, such as "swallowing" soil to complete their own copy → paste process, which is also the source of their endless possibilities.

But for every 618 million mimics, there is one that is bigger, stronger, and has a blue-light core. It is the "central nervous system" called Alpha.

As for Omega, it is their "brain" and looks like a giant sea anemone.

When a single Alpha dies, Omega's "reset" mechanism will be triggered. Not only will the day be reset, but Omega will also have all the memories before the reset, allowing it to make more complete battle plans and deployments.

Facing this type of enemy, if it weren't for William Cage, played by Tom Cruise, who had the halo of the protagonist, accidentally killed an Alpha, and happened to suck the Alpha's blood, he would have successfully broken into the reset mechanism of the mimicry.

Equivalent to a "Bug".

If Omega wants to fix this "bug", it needs to give him false illusions, induce William Cage, who has independent intelligence, to fall into a trap, and then drain him of his blood.

However, the final outcome is that William Cage used Dr. Carter's equipment to successfully locate Omega's true location, and used private information and Rita Woratarski's reputation to successfully recruit Team J, but instead killed Omega. .

After the death of Omega, all the mimics that invaded the earth collectively lost their activity. Logically speaking, this is already a very good ending. The protagonist and the lone heroes sacrificed silently to win victory for mankind.

But when William Cage was on the verge of death, he absorbed Omega's blood and reset it again, "resurrecting" himself, Rita Wolataski and all members of Team J...

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To be honest, Atlas can gain many benefits from the world of "Edge of Tomorrow", such as a complete modular mechanical skeleton and related technologies such as special materials, high-capacity batteries, intelligent systems, and two-way data transmission.

However, Sui Yang's top priority goal is to seize Mimic's [Reset] ability.

(End of this chapter)