Becoming A Tech Tycoon Begins With Regression novel Chapter 144

Chapter 144: World Domination Or Extinction

"Out of time.." Ethan repeated, logically thinking about it, based on everything the system had just shown him, there was only one logical possibility.

The Krylins had somehow found out that the cube had sent a part of itself out into the universe.

But then again, that raised the question, "how did they find out?"

The system looked at him before moving its eyes back forward.

[A signal was released at a wrong time.] It said confusing him a bit but when the scenery changed, he realized exactly what it meant.

They were now in another familiar place...his hotel room in California.

He saw himself laying in a pool of his own blood, coming directly from within his ears and moments after, the door was opened by both Aria and Lillian who had been knocking for a while now.

They immediately panicked when they came up on him but Ethan...his virtual self, paid no mind to the as he could see visible waves rise from his body into the ceiling.

Neither Aria nor Lillian seemed to notice it.

[I didn’t expect it to happen so soon,] the system started, [but when you manually upgraded your knowledge, I also upgraded to version 2.0 which gave me a small window to send a signal to my source.]

[But that signal was intercepted by the Krylins.] It completed, [that’s how they knew about me.]

Ethan was silent, his fist clenched. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

An advanced alien species had found earth and was coming for it, all because of his system.

Earth was in no way ready to face any kind of extraterrestrial life, let alone one that massively dwarfed them in terms of technology, there was no chance of survival at this encounter.

But he had to be logical, so he calmly thought about it before asking.

"How long until they find earth?" He said.

[Based on my estimates....] It paused, [ four years.]

Four years?

That wasn’t enough to prepare earth for what was coming, not in the slightest

He exhaled slowly, forcing his brain to focus, to analyze, to calculate. "Explain," he said at last.

[The Krylins will first send reconnaissance vessels to confirm the location of the signal source. Once verified, they will deploy an advance fleet to extract or destroy what remains of the Tech Cube’s fragment—me.]

Ethan’s expression hardened. "And they won’t stop there."

[Negative.] The voice was calm, almost eerily so. [They will assume your planet has made contact with higher technology and will seek to neutralize all potential resistance. It is their standard containment protocol.]

"So, four years before extermination," Ethan said flatly, his mind racing. "How long until reconnaissance arrives?"

[1.5 Earth years. Approximately eight months.]

He pinched the bridge of his nose, unable to give a proper reaction at the information, eight years was short but a year and six months?

"Damn it..."

He looked up again, eyes sharp now. "Can we block their detection? Jam the signal? Anything?"

[No. The Krylins’ detection devices operates across quantum frequencies. Once they’ve locked on to my unique pattern, it cannot be masked.]

"So, the only way to stop them..." Ethan muttered slowly, "is to outpace them?"

[Exactly,] it nodded, [that’s the reason for the latest mission issued, the only way earth can win against them is to create technology that matches or outclasses theirs.]

There was a pause on the system’s end, wait for Ethan to completely absorb its words

[But that’ll be impossible if you have humans that try to get in your way, while you try to save them,] the system finished.

"And the solution is world domination?" He concluded.

[Correct,] the system affirmed, [with complete global control, you can unify Earth’s resources, centralize progress, and accelerate development exponentially.]

He figured, else there’d be no reason for the tech influence points in the system screen. That had been its goal from the start....only, it had been forced to implement a lot earlier.

"So," he muttered, pacing slowly through the recreated room, "because of one mistake in transmission, an alien race knows where we are — and in less than five years, they’ll be here to wipe us out."

[Correct.]

"And the only way to stop them..." Ethan looked up, eyes narrowing as thoughts clicked into place like puzzle pieces. "...is to become strong enough to destroy them."

[Or prevent them from ever reaching Earth.]

"I see," he nodded in understanding.

[To achieve that, OmniTech must transition from development to dominion. The next stage in your progression is Global Technological Supremacy.]

There was silence between the two for a while , as Ethan thought about it, the System’s goal aligned with his perfectly...

Maybe almost too perfectly, but that didn’t bother him.

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