From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Inside the engine room of the Black Falcon assault boat.

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Soap can see the ground directly below, using the hatch window and the pilot's shared vision on the helmet screen.

It can still be described as "purgatory".

The blood-colored fog seems to linger here all year round.

The sunlight cannot penetrate the thick clouds and illuminate the earth well.

The helmet screen also showed that the average surface temperature was about "-13c".

Observed for a moment.

Seeing that there was nothing worth noting below, Soap withdrew his gaze from the porthole and focused his attention mainly on the screen of his helmet.

At the same time, he also called up the "13" Earth overview map.

In fact, yesterday when he led the advance team through the space gate, the engineering department launched several orbital drones into the low-Earth orbit of the "13" Earth.

After a day and a night of comprehensive scanning and filming, the originally hazy appearance of the "13" earth finally gradually became clear.

The terrain, continents, oceans, etc. are generally consistent with the Earth in the main universe, or parallel universes such as "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Doom", with almost no major changes.

Orbital drones also captured images of large numbers of human gatherings in coastal and inland areas of Europe, Asia, Africa, and other regions.

The city is huge, with numerous towns and villages, and it is brightly lit at night.

Focus shooting

It can be found that the architectural style of human gathering points seems to be similar to that of the late 19th century and early 20th century in the main universe.

Moreover, the use of electricity is more sophisticated and widespread than in the early twentieth century in the main universe.

However, as the orbital drones captured more and more clear images, the core team of the Soap and Intelligence Department was still in a state of "confusion".

From the perspective of Soap, human life on Earth 13 is extremely "miserable".

It’s not that there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor, or that there is no fairness or justice, but that the human beings on Earth 13 seem to be busy all the time.

There are no slums or rich areas, and it seems like everyone is in great financial difficulty.

The exhaust gas emitted by a large number of factories has caused human gathering places to be shrouded in smog, as if humans in the main universe have entered the industrial revolution stage.

However, orbital photography shows that human technology as a whole is somewhat "deformed".

In terms of technological level, "13" humans are definitely much stronger than those in the main universe in the early twentieth century.

At least the photos taken by orbital drones and some images show that the ground and air vehicles of the "13" humans are almost in the mid-to-late Cold War state of the main universe.

The drone even captured some of the outer defenses of the "One and Three" cities, which had huge cannons with a caliber of at least 4000mm.

And to the west of the front-line base, that is, the European area, there is a steel wall that stretches for thousands of kilometers, separating the front-line base from the surrounding bloody "purgatory".

In addition, the drone discovered that among the human troops patrolling near the steel wall, there were quite a few soldiers wearing full-coverage mechanical skeletons or power armor.

However, the reason why Soap thinks that the overall technology of "One Three" humans is somewhat "abnormal" is that he found that among the human army patrolling near the steel wall, there are still a large number of soldiers carrying cold weapons.

Knight helmets, crosses, metal armor, firearms from World War I or World War II, as well as super-heavy tanks and armored vehicles, etc.

"One Three" Humans seem to have mixed together the technology of the Middle Ages and World War I and World War II, so in the eyes of soap, they look neither fish nor fowl and seriously deformed.

What's more, Soap also discovered through orbital drones that in the "One Three" human gathering point, there are countless churches and statues of angels, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus.

It is obvious that "13" all aspects of human beings are deeply influenced by "religion".

However, from the perspective of the Intelligence Department, the core members are not clear about the situation that the "One Three" universe is facing.

The core members uploaded the images taken by the orbital drone to Sui Yang and also compiled the analysis report from the Biology Department.

When we crossed the space gate yesterday, the biological department technicians who were accompanying the advance team collected a large number of corpses.

Once the engineering department built the temporary biological center, the technicians began analyzing the remains.

The analysis results showed that most of the corpses were confirmed to be human.

And those corpses whose bones were deformed

It also has similarities with humans.

Maybe he mutated during his lifetime?

It could also be a biological weapon developed through human genes by an unknown force that is currently fighting against the "13" humans.

Moreover, the reason why the Intelligence Department is so sure that the "13" humans are fighting with some unknown forces is because the location of the space gate seems to be in a no-man's land of fighting.

The steel wall located to the west of the front-line base, which stretches for thousands of kilometers, is obviously a defensive fortification used by the "13" humans to defend themselves and prevent invasion by unknown forces.

To the southeast of the front-line base, that is, the Middle East, is the "headquarters" of unknown forces.

The intelligence department used the word "unknown" to describe it because orbital drones cannot directly capture the surface conditions in the Middle East through the thick clouds.

In addition, at this stage, orbital drones have not detected any outbreak of war. Therefore, the Intelligence Department plans to use the advance team led by Soap, investigators and a few Greek demi-gods from the Inquisition to begin reconnaissance to the west.

Prepare to infiltrate and sneak into the gathering point of "one or three" humans to obtain more intelligence and information.

On the other hand, after receiving relevant information from the core members of the Intelligence Department and the sorted analysis report from the Biology Department, Sui Yang was also unable to determine which parallel universe the "13" Earth was related to.

There are a lot of religious buildings, medieval weapons and equipment combined with those from World War I and World War II, and a distorted technology tree.

Sui Yang only recalled a movie he had watched when he was a child——

"Mutation Chronicles".

However, although the soldiers in "Mutation Chronicles" are dressed in the same style as those in World War I and World War II, the story takes place in the 28th century.

After discovering that it was difficult to fight mutants, humans launched an interstellar immigration plan to send the surviving humans to Mars or the moon to establish permanent colonies.

However, humans in the "13" universe do not have any satellites in low-Earth orbit.

Therefore, Sui Yang could only compile a file based on what he knew about the "Mutation Chronicles" and send it to the core members of the Intelligence Department so that Zao Ba and others could have a reference.

At the same time, Sui Yang also asked the Inquisition to increase its cooperation and assist the advance team led by Soap.

Moreover, the Dark Angels' 1st Company will soon be stationed at the "" front-line base.

One hundred and sixty adult Astartes, plus twenty thousand elite veterans of the AECS, collectively converted into the Legion Auxiliary Force, must be enough to deal with most emergencies.

Return to the present moment.

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After Soap browsed through the general map of the "13" Earth, his expression under the helmet became more solemn.

After all, the Earth in this universe always gives him a sense of exploring "Doom".

In the original advance team, he, Price, Xiaoqiang, Ghost and others were only lieutenants and non-commissioned officers. They needed to cross the space gate as soon as possible to personally explore the new parallel universe.

And "Doom" is also full of corruption and depravity.

But the current "One-Three" universe seems to be much stronger than the "Doom" universe.

I felt emotional for a moment.

Soap zoomed out the overview image on the helmet screen, glanced at the friendly force logo on the slightly shrunken radar, and glanced at the cabin of the Black Falcon assault boat.

Inside the cabin, including Soap himself, there were only six advance team members wearing nanosuits.

Although the cost of the advance team's nanosuit is slightly cheaper than that of the Titanium Armor's nanosuit, its technological content is not low.

More advanced optical camouflage, modular devices for absorbing and storing energy, and greatly enhanced physical fitness of the wearer.

The most important point is that the advance team's nanosuits will not "twist" non-Astartes wearers.

This greatly improves the safety factor for the advance team that is strengthening their bodies.

Next, the soap focused on the slightly shrinking radar.

Through the friendly force identification on the radar, he knew that in addition to the advance team he led, there were five reconnaissance teams also on the Black Falcon, rapidly approaching the human gathering point in the west.

Two teams of investigators will try to infiltrate the steel wall and go to the cities and towns behind the wall to collect more useful intelligence for the front-line base.

A team of Greek demi-gods worked together with the two advance teams he led, and "wandered" in this Jedi filled with blood-red fog.

See if we can capture a living sample from an unknown force.

In this way, the biology department of the front-line base can give full play to their expertise in the field of "anatomy".

Only when both ourselves and the enemy are known, will the Human Empire and Atlas launch a large-scale attack and formally integrate.

"Colonel."

Just as Soap was about to check his exclusive hard-light rifle again, he heard the report from the Black Falcon pilot on the communication channel:

"Detected at the three o'clock direction, suspected signs of an exchange of fire."

The shared screen was zoomed in as the pilot reported.

The screen showed that about six kilometers away from their current location, there were flashes of muzzle flashes and noises caused by explosions.

In addition, the onboard pulse radar also provided a large number of red dot feedback.

This shows that there are a large number of "living things" there.

Soap then immediately ordered, "Take us there."

"Yes, Colonel."

After receiving instructions from Soap, the pilot maneuvered the Black Falcon assault boat towards the site of the firefight.

Soon, three Black Falcon assault boats carrying twelve advance team members and four Greek minor gods arrived above the southeast of the firefight site and then maintained a hovering state.

And Soap, through the pilot's shared vision, vaguely saw the appearance of the warring parties.

More than a hundred human soldiers wearing World War II-style uniforms, equipped with medieval armor and helmets, are fighting against tens of thousands of.

The "heretics" are engaged in a fierce battle.

The reason why Soap considers them heretics rather than aliens is because there are too many "human" soldiers.

However, the clothes of those "human" soldiers were tattered and dirty, and there were spikes, pieces of flesh, and blood foam on their armor. It was obviously not the actions and dress of normal humans.

Moreover, most of the guys fighting alongside those "human" soldiers had severely twisted and deformed bodies.

They grow a large number of tentacles, bone spurs, compound eyes and other organs that can cause people to feel intensive phobia and psychological discomfort.

Some of the guys were huge in size, holding blood-stained, scarlet-glowing cold weapons in their hands.

Although the overall outlines of those giants still retained the torso and limbs of a human, their heads were replaced by horned sheep heads.

Combined with the analysis results of the Biological Department, Soap has reason to believe that the deformed army that is fighting against human soldiers is most likely heretics transformed from fallen humans.

In addition, the distorted army can move freely on the battlefield filled with blood mist without gas masks.

In contrast, human soldiers need to be fully armed and must wear gas masks and helmets with filtering devices in order to fight against the distorted army.

In the current situation, human soldiers are already at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, and coupled with the interference of the battlefield environment, they are gradually heading towards defeat.

If the human soldiers had not relied on the abandoned trenches and a "nun" dressed in white, equipped with knight armor and a sharp giant sword, fighting hard against the huge heretic, they would have been wiped out long ago.

"Colonel."

Witnessing the battle below, the pilot asked Soap:

“Do we intervene?”

Hearing this, Soap was silent for a moment.

After thinking for a while, he gave another order: "All combat personnel will land immediately and prepare to provide assistance to the human military of Universe 13.

In addition, all Black Falcons, listen up, and while our combat personnel are airdropped, launch a fire strike against the distorted army of the unknown force.

Try to eliminate the opponent in the shortest time!

Also, call for support from the elite guards and the Swift Shadow at the front-line base!"

"Yes, Colonel!"

As the instructions were given, the three Black Falcon assault boats immediately took action.

In addition to maintaining stealth mode and lowering altitude, the aircraft also used the weapon racks mounted on the wings to carry out the first round of missile bombings directly at the densely populated areas of the distorted army.

Ri~——Boom——Boom!!

In an instant, low-yield metal hydrogen warheads exploded one after another in the densely populated area of ​​the distorted army.

The radiance that was like a miniature sun briefly dispelled the poisonous blood mist that permeated the area, while the scorching heat and the impact of the explosion also wiped out thousands of deformed soldiers and heretical creatures at once.

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This sudden change stunned both sides in the battle.

"It's God! God has appeared!"

"Hahaha! Die, heretics! Die, all of you!!"

However, the human soldiers only experienced a brief moment of shock before they rushed out of the trenches shouting and trying to break out with their morale soaring.

Such a "miracle" of artillery fire falling from the sky seems to be quite common?

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However, the nun who was at the forefront did not utter a word.

She was no ordinary soldier, and she also understood that the missile salvo just now was not a "manifestation of God."

But at this stage, the nun, who was extremely powerful in combat, just wanted to end the battle as soon as possible and pass on the latest intelligence they had found.