Emerald was silent. At that moment, her phone suddenly rang. She answered it in surprise, and Harvey said anxiously, “thank God! My lady, where are you?” “I’m in the hospital! The machines here…” “Go to the hospital to pick up Mrs. Lewis right now!” Harvey shouted on the phone and said to Emerald, “They will be there in three minutes! My lady, please take care of yourself. I have already launched the Cheetah.” Emerald was waiting in the open space outside the hospital and felt relieved when she watched that the Cheetahs flew into the sky one by one, and all the pilots were cooperating with each other in order. All kinds of household appliances, such as refrigerators, washing machines, and even ovens, were rushing out of the houses and trying to attack humans. They were immediately shot down by the mercenaries outside after they went out. Although the machines were all very weak, this scene was too weird for Emerald to accept. The mercenaries came quickly to pick up Emerald, and she boarded the Cheetah under their protection. Harvey was piloting the fighter jet, and he launched the Cheetah in a dark face and flew to the outside of the atmosphere. Emerald was confused, “What is going on, Harvey?” Harvey said in a low voice, “we have detected a strong signal, which was scanning all over Galaxy Eternity from outer space.” “Were these machines influenced by it?” “Yes.” Harvey’s voice was particularly solemn, “There were abnormal reports on every planet. All the machines with chips in them began to attack humans!” “Was the defense system also influenced?” Emerald asked quickly.It seemed that Harvey didn’t expect that she was going to ask this, and he paused, “the signal carried the virus, and it has already begun to attack our firewall.” Emerald was astonished. What kind of signal could scan the whole galaxy and write codes in the chips of the household appliances to let them attack humans? Was the machine man coming? Was their technology so advanced? She felt more and more anxious and wanted to fly to Patrick immediately. When the Cheetah was parking safely on the deck of the space fortress, Emerald and Harvey walked for a few steps and saw a strong silver light outside the window of the corridor! Emerald turned around in fear and watched through the window. An enormous, new, silver space fortress, the size of five ordinary space fortresses, leaped right above the five planets of the Galaxy Eternity!Was it the machine man? But that was not the worst. She heard the communication officer say that the signal was stronger and stronger and attacking the defense system crazily. Once the system was broken in, all the fighters and space fortresses would lose their power. All the fighter jets and machines would become their enemies! Then the humans would lose the war without a doubt! Emerald suddenly thought of four weird words. “The awakening of machines.” That was the worst. **** When Emerald walked into the commanding center, she saw that all the officers were sitting nervously and busy doing something. Patrick was standing in front of the podium and communicating with the technical officer beside him. His back was strong and straight, but Emerald’s heart ached for him. If the war really broke out, this man had to shoulder the future of all the humans. Emerald sat down in the corner as Harvey arranged. Harvey walked to Patrick and whispered something to him after the technical officer left. Then Patrick turned around and looked at her from a long distance. This look made Emerald’s heart pop. She couldn’t help but think of a year ago when they saw the light that forecasts the war, and Patrick almost immediately sent her to the City of Mercenary. She was very angry at that time. Patrick couldn’t stand the cold war between them and let her come back. They promised each other that they would never leave each other no matter what happened. The first thing Patrick thought about was protecting his woman when facing danger. But Emerald told her that being apart was even scarier than the danger. Besides, who could guarantee that there were no machine men after they came to Galaxy Eternity? Being with him was the safest choice. But now... Emerald touched her belly. If Patrick wanted her to leave for the sake of the baby...She looked back at him steadfastly to tell him that she wanted to stay with him. She would rather stay with him and the baby to face the unknown future than run away with the baby in the universe if anything happened to him. Patrick only glanced at her for a second and looked back to the interstellar operation map. Emerald was relieved. “My lady, I’ll help defend the fortress.” Harvey walked to her and said. Emerald nodded and asked, “What’s the situation now?” Harvey took out an earphone from a computer, gave it to Emerald, and said, “The opponent had declared that they commanded us to surrender unconditionally. We will carry out an all-out attack immediately.”He took a pad of faxes from the communication officer, gave them to Emerald, and walked to the podium. The black letters on the cold, white paper shocked her, “Evan Silas Carslaw, the Commander of the First Machine Civilization, now declares the right to occupy Galaxy Eternity and the area around it with a radius of 2000 light-years, which means that we can control all the planets, resources and the intelligent beings and non-intelligent beings. All the species, which surrender voluntarily, will perform the rights and responsibilities according to Colonial Terms. All the resistors will be destroyed as our enemies. You have ten minutes to consider whether to surrender or not.” It was signed by “Evan Silas Carslaw.” The language was very stiff but arrogant and cold. Emerald thought that anyone who read this declaration would feel angry and frightened at the same time.What about him? She looked up at him. He was listening carefully to the technical officers’ brief report, and he seemed pretty cold and indifferent as if he was a statue. Maybe no one or nothing could make him frightened. They didn’t need ten minutes. Two minutes later, over twenty space fortresses of the mercenaries and the Alliance leaped in the small distance and formed a circle to surround that huge, silver machine fortress. Countless Cheetahs, Blood Bees, and Wild Kittens rushed out of the belly of the space fortresses like a flood. The first round of nuclear bombs flew to that fortress in a dazzling arc like a firework.