Many pilots in blue uniforms were sitting straight in the bright meeting room. Emerald looked around and said to the one beside him, “What’s wrong with our divisional commander? What kind of task needs all the best pilots in our country?” The divisional commander who just stepped into the room frowned, “Shut up, Emerald!” The PowerPoint was playing while the chief of operations was explaining in a cold voice. An enormous but elegant silver round object was floating in the clouds. More than ten gun muzzles were distributed on the object’s surface, which showed its excellent combat power. Any soldier would be interested in this strong and advanced stuff. But if it suddenly appeared in the sky thirty thousand meters above Beijing, and no country declared ownership of it, everyone would feel anxious, and it wouldn’t be funny anymore. “Commander, could it be aliens?” Emerald tilted her head to look at the image. This time, the divisional commander wasn’t irritated by her words and only looked at her. Then he concluded, “In a word, we have to get prepared. If they want to do something bad to us, the air force must act immediately and protect our capital!” “Yes, sir!” The pilots all stood up and saluted. “Emerald, come here!” After the meeting, Emerald was called before she stepped out of the room. She ran to the divisional commander, and he let the guard leave and stared at her solemnly. “Commander, you told us to speak freely, and I saw that the people were too nervous, so I tried to tell some jokes to entertain them.”The commander waved his hand and shouted, “Emerald Wilson!” “Yes, Sir!” She stopped smiling and stood straight. “If we are really going to have a war,” the commander said word by word, “You have to hit the first fighter no matter who they are.” “Yes, sir!” She said seriously, “I will finish the task.” Emerald kept her promise. Three days later, she hit the first fighter. When she stood in front of the broken fighter holding her helmet, she wasn’t as relaxed as before. She was more anxious than ever. “Good job, lieutenant!” The engineers climbed to the cabin and broke open the gate. Through the smoke, they saw in surprise that a silver-white machine man was sitting quietly on the pilot seat.Bullets hit its head, and a part of it sank in. The complicated circuit and chip were showing. The metal body seemed to be light and elegant, as if it had a spirit and life before. A robot man. Their enemies were alien robots. It was the robot that struck their headquarters in a northern military district and destroyed over fifty human fighters. At this moment, the robots were bombarding all the military bases and trying to control the cities. After flying for hours, Emerald didn’t say anything and put on her helmet again. Despite the ground staff’s obstruction, she climbed onto her fighter. The divisional commander’s guard suddenly called her. “Lieutenant.” The young guard said with sadness, “Commander wants to talk to you.”There was only the commander standing in the big command center. He stood in front of the podium as if he had grown old over one night. Emerald couldn’t help but think of the day before yesterday when all the best pilots were sitting in this room happily. But now, almost half of them were dead, and the other ones were still driving the fighter to stop the strong robot enemies. “Emerald, come here.” The commander looked at her as if he was looking at his daughter, “It’s said that you hit a fighter?” Emerald answered calmly, “Sir, I will destroy more fighters.” “Good, good.” The commander stared at her, “Is your fiancé an excellent hacker?” “Yes, he’s the best in the world.” She was never so sure before. His eyes were extremely bright, and he suddenly grabbed Emerald’s shoulder, “Let him come here! Now! Our experts didn’t know what to do, and the enemy hacked my command system. Your comrades were flying in the sky blindly now. Get him here! I want him to help us! Help us attack those robots!” “Yes, sir!” Emerald turned around and walked away. After a few steps, she stopped and turned back to look at the commander. “Commander.” She said word by word, “We’ll fight until the last one dies! They can only walk into this city over our dead bodies!” Emerald went back to the fighter jet. Although all the countries were helping this city, there was no fighter or tank that could break into the encirclement of the robots. Once the army lost the war, the city would be theirs. After landing her fighter directly in the center of the neighborhood, Emerald jumped out and saw countless people running outside of the neighborhood. “Don’t be afraid! I’m a soldier of the air force. I won’t hurt you!” She shouted to the crowd. But no one paid attention to her. The neighbors ran crazily and screamed as if some ghosts were running after them. She ran in the opposite direction to the people and ran to the gate of her apartment building. After a few steps, she froze as if she was spelled. She wondered whether there was something wrong with her eyes since she had flown for too long. Otherwise, why were the fridges, air-conditioners, and washing machines all jumping or rolling towards the outside as if they had a life? She looked around the whole neighborhood and found out that the electrical kept falling from the windows and was broken into pieces. Machines were moving in front of every building. Beside the gates of some buildings, people are lying on the ground with blood on their heads or bodies, who were apparently attacked. Who attacked them?The machines woke up. She suddenly felt scared when she thought about this sentence. She felt that what was going on now definitely had something to do with the robots. Then she didn’t hesitate to pull out her gun and walked to the fire passage behind the building. She panicked. Patrick’s phone was off, and no one answered the phone at home. Where could he be now? The door of her home was open as she expected, and she walked into the room holding her gun. It was messy inside with the TV, air-conditioner, and fridge all gone as if someone robbed her house. She took a deep breath and rushed into the bedroom. She almost burst into tears. Patrick was still sleeping quietly on the bed. He was still in the same pose, wearing a pajama, as the day Emerald left him, as if he had never moved since then.Emerald suddenly felt weird, and she rushed to him, reaching her hand to touch his nose. Emerald felt his warm breath, and she cried because of happiness. She pulled him into her arms and suddenly felt relieved. Great. Honey, are you in a coma because the machine attacked you? It’s alright. If the city is ruined, I’ve said that I’ll drive the fighter and take you out as long as I’m with you! She dragged Patrick and went into the fighter, which seemed to be normal, in fear. Maybe the fighter didn’t “wake up” like other machines because of the defense system.