Human Light Umbrella

Inside the bridge.

"Chairman."

Wearing a black female employee uniform, with black long hair scattered, and red eyes flickering with faint red light, the red queen said to Sui Bian who was standing in front of her behind the huge porthole:

"The Second Legion led by Primarch John and the UNSC's 045th Fleet have arrived at Harvest Star.

According to the report sent back by John, Harvest Star's only stationed battleship, Retribution, successfully destroyed one, captured two enemy ships, and captured the commander of the suspected enemy fleet.

At present, the enemy has no latest actions against the Epson VIII galaxy. John also said that with him and the Second Legion, there will be no changes in Harvest Star.

At the same time, the crew of the Punishment uploaded detailed actual combat data as soon as the communication was restored.

The Thutmose Legion, the Astartes of the reserve combat platoon, also found a gap between the enemy's various races, and suggested that they could try to disintegrate the enemy from within.

Chairman please see. "

After the red queen finished speaking, several holographic screens were generated in front of Sui Bian, playing the actual combat materials and helmet cameras compiled by her.

"Ah."

Seeing these, Sui Bian responded lightly.

At this time, he was wearing black as the main color, embellished with gold thread, and red and white umbrella buttons on the neckline and cuffs.

In terms of appearance, it is completely impossible to tell that he is a person who is nearly a hundred years old, and the years have left no traces on him.

Even in this era of longevity for all people, it is unique.

Star Alliance (the&).

In fact, four hours ago, when Sui Bian sent a request for help to the outside world through the Punishment, he photographed the appearance of the three enemy ships, and he could tell at a glance that the guys who invaded the Epson VIII galaxy were the Star Alliance.

After all, the appearance of the warship is highly recognizable.

Through the helmet cameras of Gabriel and other reservists, Sui Bian believes that the Star Alliance in this universe is basically the same as the Star Alliance he knew in his previous life.

The Covenant is a huge religious empire brought together by different races.

If Sui Bian remembers correctly, the main territory of this empire led by a group of "magic sticks" dictatorship should be concentrated in Orion's Cantilever.

It is a close neighbor of human beings.

Contact and exchange of fire between the two sides is inevitable.

And the so-called "God Stick" is the priest who looks like a decadent ostrich in the built-in garden chanting scriptures.

They have their own racial name, Sansim, but the most used is "Prophet".

Whether it is the political and military fields of the Star Alliance, or the religion believed by the Star Alliance, the Prophets are the absolute and practical leaders.

This is followed by the Sangheili, or "elite".

Elites are considered as an alternative among the various races of the Star Alliance. They highly advocate martial arts and are a natural fighting race.

Even an elite who has just grown up can easily fight against more than a dozen strong human soldiers without armor and weapons.

Advocating martial arts, fighting races, and strong self-esteem, this has led to common elites with hot tempers, stubborn personalities, straight-forward, and low emotional intelligence.

When encountering orders that conflict with reality, or encountering situations where they are correct, they may directly contradict their superiors...

That is to say, a prophet who seems decadent and has no combat capabilities at all.

Moreover, the original Star Alliance could only rely on fighting races like elites, weak grunts, and gnolls like weeds, and other races simply couldn't support high-intensity combat.

This makes the elite's voice in the Star Alliance more and more important, especially in the military.

This also attracted the deep fear of the "magic stick" prophets.

However, with their savage nature, but easy to control, the number of ghost-faced beasts far surpassed that of the elites joined the Star Alliance, allowing the Prophet to see the "dawn".

Gabriel and the others discovered the gap between the elites and the ghost-faced beasts. The discordant temper was one aspect. The most important thing was that they could not do without the secret guidance of the prophet, which intentionally caused the two clans to gradually build up grievances, even hostility and hatred.

In this way, we can wait for the opportunity and "naturally" eliminate the elite.

As for the gods believed in by the Star Alliance, they have nothing to do with different dimensions, they are advanced civilizations that belong to the real universe——

forerunner.

Chapter 258 The Forerunner, the Flood, and the Public

Ever since the discovery of metal relics of unknown meaning and purpose in the colony of Methrein, Sui Bian realized that the race that built the relics was most likely a pioneer.

Not only are the architectural styles similar, but when the team led by Laura Crawford conducts research, they also have certain access rights, and do not need to use blasting methods to penetrate into the ruins.

The current Umbrella has just started research on the ruins of Methrin.

Afterwards, Shirley discovered a second relic on Harvest Star, and combined with the Star Alliance scouting fleet that was "cooked up" by the Retribution...

Especially the "long-necked jellyfish" captured by Gabriel and the others, Sui Bian can finally confirm that there is also a pioneer race in this universe.

Or rather, it used to exist.

Because the "long-necked jellyfish" is not a creature in the traditional sense, it is a half-machine, half-biological race created by the pioneers and named "Huragok".

This docile, tranquil and peaceful race was bestowed with the gift of mechanical proficiency by the forerunners.

Specializes in repairs, object finding, maintenance, mapping and renovation, and various "engineering" related matters.

Therefore, they can be directly referred to as "engineers".

However, the prophets who were the first to discover the engineer family treated them as slaves, squeezing their mechanical talents as much as possible, and further expanding the military strength of the Star Alliance.

And the pioneers...

If Sui Bian's past life memory is correct, the forerunner should have become the master of the Milky Way 6 to [-] years ago.

It's just that the galaxy he is in now is very different from the "Halo" he is familiar with.

First of all, what is the relationship between the ancient humans and forerunners in this universe and the pioneers who are infinitely close to the god-level civilization, and whether the forerunners exist.

The second is the super weapon named "Halo" built by the forerunners, and the terrifying Zerg targeted by the weapon—

flood.

The pioneers in "Halo" walked between the galaxies with flesh and blood, spreading the fire of life, and created races including ancient humans, forerunners, and prophets.

The relationship between the forerunner and the ancient humans is equivalent to "big brother" and "second brother", and a racial war broke out between the two sides with a unit of ten thousand years.

In the course of the war, there were winners and losers, and there were also forced alliances due to the attack of the flood.

But the final result is that the pioneers won, degraded the technology of ancient humans to the stone age, and bound them to the earth.

However, not long after the Forerunner became the overlord of the galaxy, the Flood, which was also created by the Forerunner and a biological weapon, invaded in an all-round way.

Before the Ten Thousand Years War broke out.

The proud and conceited pioneer, dissatisfied with the pioneer's intention to train the ancient humans to inherit the mantle, so he took the act of "be kind and filial to the son", "successfully" attacked the pioneer, and took the opportunity to launch a war against the ancient humans.

But what the pioneers destroyed was only the pioneer body.

For the purpose of teaching the "eldest son" a lesson and testing whether the "second son" has the ability to inherit the mantle, the pioneers dropped a flood in the galaxy that could devour all intelligent life.

As long as there is an infection-shaped spore on the planet, and if it is not discovered and eliminated in time, then the planet can basically be declared hopeless.

The devouring of the Flood includes the body, memory, wisdom, and thinking of intelligent life.

The more it swallowed, the smarter the Flood became, until it became a "Grave Mind Beast" like the highest command.

This is a long time.

Fighting the Flood in a conventional way will only provide them with food continuously, allowing them to evolve continuously.

Therefore, the pioneers developed a super weapon that can be "one-click erase".

Its pulse speed can even disregard the laws of physics, to instantly wipe out all life in the galaxy, including the halo of the Forerunner himself.

Ignite the aura.

Everything goes to zero.

But the artificial intelligence left over from the forerunners started to work, and all the life samples that had been "backed up" in advance would be redistributed throughout the galaxy.

There are human enemies and friends in the sample, but their predecessors are not.

It may be redemption, or it may be internal faction disputes. Sui Bian in his previous life did not go into details.

His current galaxy is full of all kinds of ghosts and monsters, not to mention there are demons from different spaces who are eyeing the real universe, which is much more complicated and dangerous than the environment in "Halo".

Forerunners do exist.

But their relationship to humans, Heralds, may be completely different, like the hell plane of this world, which is different from the hell of Doom.

That "man" is not a "hot man" who likes rabbits, but Ziegler's father who is waiting to come home.

In particular, among his company employees, there is a hunting goddess who has lived for nearly 3 years including her sleeping time.

Artemis and Sui Bian talked about the past of Olympus and the Titans. After calculation, the Greek gods have survived on the earth for at least 10 years.

During this period, they have not encountered the halo pulse that wipes out all life, nor have they encountered the artificial intelligence of the forerunners that reconstructed the life system on the earth.

As for why humans still have access to the ruins of the forerunner, he needs to arrive at Harvest Star before further investigation.

thought for a moment.

Sui Bian lightly waved his left hand and transferred the holographic screen in front of him to the center console. He also turned around and walked towards the center of the bridge.

Red and white followed by left and right.

And it looks almost the same as the red queen, the white queen whose pupils flicker faintly blue, reported to her boss:

"Chairman, we will arrive at the Harvest Star in three hours, and the Laura Crawford team that has already set off will arrive before us.

I am also trying to understand the language used by the enemy. Based on the tone of the enemy commander and my own understanding, I have initially translated the video message sent by the enemy commander to the Retribution. "

At the same time, they have come to the side of the center console.

Sui Bian crossed his hands in front of him, looked at the dazzling star charts and information, and said, "What are you talking about?"

heard.

The expression on the face of the White Queen showed a somewhat dignified expression, and her voice was also slightly heavy: "The enemy commander calls himself Mullin Mir.

It said that there is a legacy of gods on Harvest Planet, but the existence of human beings has desecrated this heritage and the gods they worship.

In order to maintain the canon of the covenant, it and its troops will fulfill the extermination order issued by the empire and burn all heresies on Harvest Planet. "

Speaking of this, Queen Bai also added: "Although the content is mostly translated according to my understanding, it is not difficult to guess that they are a religious multi-racial united empire, and they have officially declared war on us."

"Declaration of war? Oh, I wish for it." Leon, standing opposite the center console, echoed.

Leon, who was wearing the Knight-type Primarch Power Armor, maintained the same standing posture as his father, and said with disdain in his tone:

"Three enemies and one can lose, so what qualifications do you have to shout about? Just use their empire as a stepping stone, as the beginning of the Great Expedition, and let the trash see what the real extermination order is."

"Hehe." Sui Bian smiled lightly.

This time, he didn't teach his son as usual, saying "don't be careless" and "keep vigilant".

Human beings at this stage are fully qualified to regard the Star Alliance as garbage.

When John conveyed to him through the Red Queen that the Harvest Star would be safe and sound with the presence of the Second Legion, Sui Bian did not have the slightest worry at all.

Because his second son, and the Spartan Legion led by the second son, are "professional counterparts" in dealing with the Star Alliance.

Thirty newly-adult reservists can stroll around the Star Alliance's combat aircraft carrier.

Not to mention that in the Spartan Legion, there are more than [-] adult Astartes equipped with Thor's Hammer and Terminator.

If the Star Alliance really dared to assemble multiple main fleets to invade Harvest Star again, then John would take them away, saving time and effort in searching for them in the unknown space.

But Sui Bian still corrected his third son:

"It's not a big expedition, Leon, this time it's just a regular "counterattack war", after all, the other side declared war on us first.

Moreover, just looking at the technological level and military strength displayed by the opponent, its territory should not exceed the Orion Cantilever, so it cannot be called a great expedition.

However, this is an excellent opportunity to officially announce the existence of you and your brothers to the outside world. It is time for mankind as a whole to learn more about the truth. "

"Follow father's arrangement." Leon responded respectfully, and then remained silent with an indifferent expression.

Sui Bian, on the other hand, looked to the right side from the corner of his eye and asked, "How does society view this incident?"

"Although the general public only knows that Harvest Star is disconnected, without us releasing the details, the Internet and various media have already concluded that it is an alien invasion." Queen Bai replied.