System: My Doomsday Train-Chapter 706 - 312: "Omen Soul Banner" (Requesting Monthly Tickets)_4
"The Insect Race Civilization is extremely fond of, during chaotic warfare, finding a way to locate a residential planet, then sending out a large amount of insectoid monsters to fight on the ground. This combat strategy consistently drags on the Mechanical Civilization, given that it is a Mechanical Civilization planet, with a large population, rendering a Star Burst impossible."
"Ground troops must be dispatched to clear out the insectoid monsters, and the process, along with the significant personnel casualties during this process, puts considerable logistical pressure on the Mechanical Civilization."
"These two accessories will somewhat turn the tide of the battle."
"In order to wash these two accessories out with sufficiently suitable Supermodel Effects, the Design Institute over the years has spent vast amounts of Murphy Stone and resources, finally producing a perfect Accessory Original Image. They originally intended to wait for the military to proactively approach them with pleas, but it never came, so they had no choice but to make it publicly available for free."
"But—"
"The Design Institute perhaps underestimated the military’s tenacity and also underestimated the animosity between the two."
"Even though the Design Institute openly released the Accessory Original Image for free."
"The military still completely disregarded it."
"They would rather let a large number of their ground forces be dragged to the planet, rather have large numbers of personnel die daily, rather consume vast amounts of resources daily, and they would rather die than use the blueprints developed by the Design Institute, constantly urging their own military design teams to develop corresponding blueprints."
"Perhaps it’s destiny’s favor."
"Three years passed."
"The military’s own design team, after consuming considerable Murphy Stone and resources, also produced perfect attribute Accessory Original Images for the ’Robot Research Center’ and the ’Armed Black Hole Robot’."
"That day, the entire military was very excited, celebrating with a full military feast."
"I sat in a tall building, looking towards the outskirts where the military district was celebrating, feeling utterly hopeless in my heart. As the princess of this civilization, I could only watch helplessly as my civilization moved towards extinction."
"I wanted to do something."
"Yet, I could accomplish nothing."
"Even my father is powerless, what more could I do."
"All I can do is wait for death."
"The same Accessory Original Image, yet the Mechanical Civilization spent twice the Murphy Stone, twice the resources, twice the time, and suffered twice the death toll."
"Sometimes, I feel grateful, thankful that the Mechanical Civilization has only two such forces, for if there were three, wouldn’t it mean spending threefold."
"And so—"
"The most terrifying thing happened."
"And also the biggest turning point."
"Even thinking about it now, the mere thought makes my skin crawl, it’s unimaginable that this was done by my own people."
"On the 239th year of the war, the Mechanical Civilization was already in a dire state of collapse. It was from this year onwards that the numbers of the Insect Race Civilization’s troops surged, seemingly endless, striking the Mechanical Civilization so they couldn’t lift their heads, with severe shortages in resource supplies."
"This year is the 295th year of the war, and unlikely as it seems, it’s also the last year."
"During the interim, 56 entire years passed."
"It wasn’t until the 292nd year that the Design Institute publicly announced that the number of the Insect Race Civilization’s troops hadn’t in fact surged; instead, the insectoid monsters possessed infinite resurrection abilities. According to Design Institute research, when the Insect Race Civilization deployed monsters, they would mix in a batch of level 1 monsters called Antenna Worms."
"Extremely fragile."
"Almost dying upon contact."
"This monster could grant the insectoid monsters in a region the ability of infinite resurrection, yet often hid in extremely safe areas at the rear." 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢
"The Design Institute developed an accessory specifically targeting Antenna Worms, capable of killing all Antenna Worms in a region from an ultra-long distance."
"Very formidable."
"The Design Institute truly had its depth."
"But—"
"By this time, it had been 53 years since the Mechanical Civilization was being crushed by the Insect Race, and actually, in the first year, when the Insect Race Civilization’s troops surged, the Design Institute had secretly dispatched troops to capture several ’Antenna Worms’ and within a year developed a method to kill all Antenna Worms within a light-year region in battles."
"If this method had been deployed on the battlefield at that time."
"I believe the tide of battle would definitely have changed because of it."
"The Mechanical Civilization would surely endure!"
"But..."
"What terrifies me is that the Design Institute kept this information hidden for 50 years, without telling anyone, while watching the Mechanical Civilization’s troops and people being slaughtered like locusts."
"Watching the Mechanical Civilization walk deeper towards the brink of extinction."
"Perhaps the last gesture of goodwill that was met with ridicule made the Design Institute harbor an even greater grudge, being even more ruthless this time, until the Mechanical Civilization’s military death rate reached seventy percent, when no more recruits were available, and when all stored resources had been completely depleted."
"The Design Institute finally handed over the Accessory Original Image."
"Perhaps the people at the Design Institute felt no war’s cruelty sitting in their offices, naively thinking that simply handing over the Accessory Original Image would be decisive, that everyone would know who was most important? Who could turn the tide."
"But..."
"Even now, should the military collectively equip this accessory, it would already be useless."
"Already at the brink of extinction."
"But—"
"And yet something even more astounding happened, even at this moment, the military still chose to ignore this Accessory Original Image, preferring to face death and not use it. I rarely speak foul language, but as I write this diary, I strongly feel like cursing my civilization with the most venomous words I’ve ever known."
