From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

6 month 10 day.

Reach Star, this side of the operational base located deep in the desert.

The two Herring Gull 2 ​​troop carriers slowly took off. As they drove out of the canyon, the pilots responsible for driving and controlling the aircraft turned on the optical camouflage, making them disappear from the observation range of the naked eye and radar and monitoring devices.

in the cabin;

"Everyone pay attention." Ada displayed her holographic image in the cabin and told a group of elite investigators:

"This operation faces a situation without orbital support. After Herring Gull 2 ​​transports you all to the outskirts of New Alexandria, you will be required to infiltrate the target location on foot and launch a raid.

After capturing the target of this operation, you still need to evacuate New Alexandria on foot and look for opportunities to return to the base of operations aboard the Herring Gull 2.

Who has any questions? "

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Upon hearing this, Leon and others responded with silence.

Seeing this, Ada also said "Good luck to everyone" and then dissipated her own holographic image, allowing the cabin to return to peace.

Leon, who was sitting next to the hatch on the right side, turned over his left forearm and continued to browse the mission briefing provided by the personal computer.

The destination of their trip is the ONI headquarters located in the center of New Alexandria——

Olympic Tower.

Two days ago, they successfully captured Catherine Halsey and teleported her to the forward base on Harvest.

After that, a notice came from the frontline base that "Dr. Halsey is now a member of our team."

Leon originally thought that those geniuses were more "rigid" and "stubborn" and would not easily switch camps no matter what.

Maybe the boss used some kind of supernatural force?

To this day, Leon still remembers the various phenomena that could not be explained by science when his boss led a group of investigators deep into the temple of "The Goddess of Death, Suikati".

After Halsey became a member of their Atlas team, she provided information about ONI, including the smart AI that stores various confidential data and files, which is the location of Melissa's terminal.

Although Halsey could not determine the specific floor of the terminal room, giving Lyon and the others a rough location in their minds was enough to risk rushing into the Olympic Tower and forcibly carry out the robbery.

You must know that Atlas at this stage is in urgent need of intelligent AI assistance, especially for reverse deciphering, cracking and other types of work and projects.

In addition, relying on the lax mentality that "the rebels have no guts to attack the ONI headquarters", Ada prepared to carry out a quick attack and quick retreat plundering operation.

"Eh"

Just when Leon put down his left hand and no longer focused on the personal computer, Mike suddenly sighed, attracting his attention.

"What's wrong?" Leon asked in a low voice.

"Live ammunition." Mike said, holding a magazine full of 8mm needle spike bullets:

"I'm just afraid that some unlucky guys will hit the gun, but let's die. I can only say that the company's interests come first."

"Just do our best." Leon patted Mike on the shoulder, "Besides, the director's approval of us using Gauss firearms means that the company has started an underground war with the UNSC.

Pity and kindness will only waste your life in vain, and it is also irresponsible to your comrades. "

"Of course I know." Mike looked sideways at Leon, "I'm just sighing, there's no need to make a long speech.

By the way, how are you and the director doing? "

"What's going on?" Leon was stunned.

"Of course it was when you two were hiding in the city, right?"

Mike didn't finish speaking, but he freed his hands and made a "snap" motion.

"How is that possible?" This time it was Leon who sighed:

"Just the director's look that could kill me, me too? Why am I telling you this?!"

Only then did Leon react and quickly shut up to avoid being heard by other guys and then spread to the ears of the director.

"Well, it seems that you are enlightened." Mike looked like he was looking at his son and nodded solemnly.

"Don't pull those useless things." Leon was helpless, then he packed up his equipment and weapons, closed the helmet's visor, and said:

"Put your mind on the task, which is better than anything else."

"Haha, you're right."

Mike smiled heartily, also closed his helmet visor, and waited patiently for the action to begin.

It won't take long.

The pilots posted a "Please enter stealth mode" reminder on their helmet screens.

Bah-bah-!

With a slight electronic sound effect, Leon, Mike and others all turned on the individual optical camouflage.

Soon, two Herring Gull 2s landed in the dense forest on the outskirts of the city, allowing more than sixty genetically enhanced elite investigators to rush out of the cabin and rush to the Olympic Tower in the city center on foot.

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As the ONI headquarters, the Olympic Tower is heavily guarded.

Agents disguised as passers-by and vendors secretly monitor the surrounding movements. There are fully armed UNSC Marines at the entrance and exit of the main entrance. On the nearby commanding heights, ONI has also deployed a black unit sniper team to ensure that all threats can be killed as soon as possible. .

However, both ONI and local residents believed that the rebels would not be stupid enough to launch an attack on the Olympic Tower.

After all, the income ratio is too low.

What's more, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of ONI agents in the tower. Rebels without much actual combat experience dare to launch a terrorist attack here, which is equivalent to willingly risking death and giving every quarter's performance to ONI agents.

However.

"Ting——Ting——!!"

However, the unique crisp sound of Gauss firearms broke the tranquility here.

puff!puff!

The 8mm spike bullet with extremely strong penetration ability easily penetrated the UNSC Marine armor guarding the main entrance, and penetrated the Marine's shoulders, calves, forearms and other non-lethal parts.

"what!"

"My knees!"

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Buzz~woo——! !

As gunshots and screams rang out one after another, a deafening siren sounded from the Olympic Tower.

At the same time, fire and riot walls were lowered to block the main entrance and passages to important facilities.

However, the Atlas investigators who had broken into the Olympic Tower used directional metallic hydrogen and plasma blast bombs to successfully blow up and melt through the fire and riot walls that blocked their progress.

Immediately afterwards, the special operations team led by Chris almost "ramped" and arrived at the terminal room of the intelligent AI Melissa.

After forcibly abducting him, Chris and the others withdrew from the Olympic Tower, joined up with Leon, Mike, Maggie and others who were responsible for attracting attention, and disappeared into the densely populated and built-up urban area of ​​New Alexandria at an extremely fast running speed.

Just as Ada expected, they attacked and retreated quickly. By the time the main force of the UNSC arrived at the Olympic Tower, the investigators had already "escaped."

A few hours later, Ada transferred the terminal storage device of the intelligent AI Melissa to the frontline base of Harvest Star through the Ark.

Harvest's low Earth orbit;

A fleet composed of a Valiant-class super-heavy cruiser, six Paris-class and twelve Fiddes-class frigates started the jump voyage, entered the jump space glowing with faint blue light, and rushed to the ship hundreds of light away. The shield world outside the year 0459.