Space Invaders Remastered [Full-Stack Game]

☢️ First Contact ☢️

"... So that means we are... hey, are you alright?"

Martin's words pulled the half-sleeping Raj back into reality, who was in dire need of rest after carrying out an operation for the past two days. Still, he gave his leg a forceful pinch, an action rarely executed by a medical personnel, knowing that he must not miss what his colleague was speaking.

"I am sorry, but could you... repeat?"

"I was saying, everyone in Singapore is to move to Malaysia within this week. Yesterday, a world-breaking news was released during your two-day shift: NASA announced that the Merdeka Space Telescope has detected a fleet of alien spacecraft heading towards the Milky Way. Judging from the appearance of their ships, they are the same race as the one which attacked Earth last year. The UN has reached a consensus to launch a global project called "Holes".
There will be five gigantic underground cavities dug around the globe within this month, enough to accommodate more than a billion people each and sustain them for one year. The nearest one to Singapore is being constructed in Malaysia, where all the people in the entire South East Asian region are to move there within this week. We are going to hide ourselves from the aliens until, hopefully, they have moved past Earth unknowingly and unsuspectingly."

Time appeared to have frozen, and Raj felt that he was being asphyxiated by the air wrapping around him. Unbeknownst to himself, beads of sweat started to condense onto his forehead, and his mind turned into a blur, where he could almost see stars silhouetted against the sunlight with superb spacecraft flying across them.

"There were other suggestions such as flying the entire population on Earth to the dark side of the moon, hoping to achieve victory in the upcoming interstellar hide-and-seek. But the UN eventually decided to go with the "Holes" project, rating it as the safest choice we have right now."

A long and deafening silence followed.

"The way we used to lead our life is no more."

"And possibly the way we will ever live."

The room returned to vacuum.

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[Refer to the Background Story for the full story]