The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

Seeing the corruption of the Citadel Council at this time is really hard for people to calm down. The two began to understand why Nilus had a sudden change in expression (0w0→=w=) when he saw those old turian cruisers. It's over.

"I hope this batch of goods is not from the Star Alliance..."

In the survival ship, Shepard felt his blood pressure rise suddenly, and he realized that everyone was in danger at the moment:

"You should say this kind of thing as soon as you enter the door!" He pointed at the General Querry and shouted, resisting the urge to make a curse gesture, and then patted Liana on the shoulder next to him, "Let's go!"

"What should we do now?" Lex patted the big sprayer hanging on the back of his waist, "Do you want to join the battle?"

"We won't survive five minutes if the Normandy enters a fleet battle."

Shepard shook his head, and led the crowd along the corridor towards the port:

"Retreat, report, and wait for support. We can't handle this alone!"

Nilus shrugged, and he said with an uncertain tone:

"Maybe the Citadel can't handle it..."

The quarians are not a race of the Citadel, they were expelled from the Citadel 300 years ago when they had an accident, lost a large population and created an omnic disaster.The Citadel doesn’t have any public welfare traditions. Before even joining races to hammer a colony for (suspected) Geths, they used “you are going to cross the galaxy to colonize it at your own risk” to prevaricate. Now you still expect the Citadel to come to the rescue Are there quarians who have nothing to do with the Citadel?

The Quarians were not originally a popular race and could not gain popular support through public opinion.

No one likes wandering races with no fixed abode. First of all, they will mine in places where they are temporarily stationed, which touches the interests of those mining companies. Even if their business does not go there, merchants like to regard the surrounding area as their own. 'Potential property', being scooped up by the quarians is like taking money out of your own pocket.

If it is a general situation of resource competition, the traditional business war will eventually develop into a situation where mercenaries confront each other to secure resource points, but... no one can win Quali, these have hundreds of warships (before this military expansion), and a large number of warships Fighter planes and gunboats, and the survival fleet with turrets installed on each civilian ship is a behemoth that ordinary commercial companies cannot shake.

That's really hateful.

And aside from the merchants, the quarians have a bad reputation among the general population because of the laws they've been using.The Quarians are only sentenced to death for the most serious crimes, such as murder, hijacking, and destroying ships. Most Quarian captains only assign ordinary criminals to repair the more dangerous ships. What about habitual offenders who have not yet received the death penalty?

The Quarians don't have the materials and manpower to put prisoners in jail. Given the shortage of space and resources, it is definitely not an acceptable option to support the unproductive prison population, so they will take the method of exile to deal with prisoners, specifically... Some hardened repeat offenders are "accidentally" left on inhabited planets passing by.To put it in a less sharp way, it is [this incident often arouses dissatisfaction among the local living races].

True, the comparison is less sharp.

Also because of these reasons, in the eyes of ordinary people, the quarians are generally regarded as thieves and beggars. This sentiment has gradually extended from the people to the high-level of the Citadel in more than two centuries.

Now, the quarians have once again waged a failed war against the geth, and even with the most optimistic attitude, everyone knows that it is impossible for the Citadel to send a fleet to support this troublesome race of quarians.Tully obviously knew this too. She realized that the history of the quarians was likely to end here, so she stopped, hoping to be with her compatriots at the last moment and return to her father. Walking towards him, he slapped himself and pushed himself backwards.

"Aunt Lane?! I'm a member of the fleet! I should be here! I have an appointment with my father, someday..."

"Let's go," Admiral Ryan's attitude was extremely firm. "As an admiral, I announce that you are no longer a member of the fleet. Tully Zola Weiss Ni...Normandy!"

Tully almost fell down, but there was a short guy behind her who caught her, it was Dajiang with a look of astonishment.Just as Tully was about to argue, she saw Admiral Ryan waving his hand in this direction, representing 'Hurry up':

"Take her away! No time!"

Dajiang has always been a neat guy, and the logic in her mind is very clear-first, the status of Admiral Ryan among the quarians is much higher than that of Tully, and Tully must listen to her words; second, the current The situation cannot continue to dally.

So she picked Tully up on her shoulders and ran, following Shepard through the crowd, Tully doing nothing but reaching out in Admiral Lane's direction.

On Tully's swaying mask, the reflection of Admiral Ryan disappeared into the crowd in just a few seconds. There was a lot of noise around, and the sound of alarms, footsteps and orders occupied all people's attention.No one paid attention to the young quarian being carried away at this time, and no one could see her expression at the moment through the mask.

Tully closed her eyes in pain. Fortunately, she was the only one in the mask, so that no one could see her expression at the moment, but the sad thing was...he was the only one here.

She didn't remember how she was carried into the airlock of the Normandy and put there, and she had no time to care about what her companions were doing at the moment, so she could only curl up against the wall and bury her face in her knees.

The flames of battle are gradually approaching, and most of the starships in the survival fleet do not have the ability to maneuver quickly, and they have no choice but to confront them head-on.The Normandy had to evacuate immediately if she wanted not to be involved in the battle. Shepard shouted as soon as she got on board:

"Joker! Get us out of here! Wear hazmat suits, everyone!"

"it is good!"

The propellers flashed explosively, and the Normandy moved away from the survival ship next to it. Just as it was about to speed up, it saw a quarry cruiser in front of it also start to turn, and it just inserted into the predetermined channel of Normandy. The battleship has already broken through the protection of the quarry fleet and rushed up, so the cruiser must start air defense operations. During the roundabout, she deployed the turret, and the electromagnetic acceleration turret with a high rate of fire rarely seen in this universe rained bullets forward, invisible The communication waves and detection waves filled the surrounding airspace.

From Joker's point of view, it's like an iron-gray wall suddenly erected in front of him, the flash of shelling seems to explode in front of his eyes, and the missile is passing tens of meters away at high speed.This made him curse nervously, forcibly stopped accelerating and began to perform evasive maneuvers.At this moment, the shells of the Geth had already passed around, and the cruiser was shot. Countless metal and non-metal fine pieces scattered from the bullet point, and the high-temperature energy fragments sprayed out like shredded cheese. After that, the Geth carrier-based aircraft that rushed over were like shrimps swimming backwards. They continuously fired high-speed metal blocks from under the 'nose', punching a series of holes the size of a person in the cruiser.

They were followed by several quarian fighters, which clung to the enemies who were attacking their homeland, strafing at dangerous close range.A geth fighter was smashed into a ball of fire, and the turian-made fighter behind it had no time to avoid it, so it had to bite the bullet and pass through the explosive fireworks, but in the next instant it was shot by the approaching geth frigate with a laser cannon. torn apart.Two "Cosmic Enchantresses" from the Covenant rushed straight down from directly above, the fire line of the plasma machine gun swept the kinetic energy shield of the Geth frigate, and then two fuel cannons shot from the sky like hellfire hitting the Skyfire. Falling directly above.

The first fuel cannon was received by the energy shield, but the second shot that hit at close range successfully broke through the protection of the shield. Even though it dissipated the moment it passed through the shield, the high-temperature plasma still boiled The fragile armor of the frigate, the cruiser that was severely damaged also turned around and fired a round of salvo from the turret within its firing range. More than [-] high-speed metal projectiles penetrated into the body of the frigate at the same time, and the next moment the power furnace The burst of light burst out suddenly but silently, stimulating everyone's eyes.

And the nerves of everyone on board the Normandie.

At this moment, the Normandy is deeply caught in the fire net, the surrounding beams, explosions, orbital bombs, and even large shells fired from a distance are like a violent storm.No one's attention was specifically on Normandy, but being caught in such a tight firefight was scary enough. Joker bit his lips tightly, and his hands were as agile as flying. He deftly avoided countless floating wreckage, and his gorgeous movements were as light as a dancer's footsteps.

Shepard firmly grasped the armrest behind the driver's seat, even though he was an experienced ghost agent who had stepped on countless battlefields, he still dared not make a sound.The technology of the ghost agent is displayed on the ground. Whether it is sneaking in, negotiating, assassinating, or shooting directly, the targets are all "creatures". Rapid-fire cannonballs won't talk to you.

In the corner of the field of vision, the survival ship just now was hit by a shell, and a large hole close to 20 meters was blasted on the side of the hull. The fire flashed, and all kinds of unrecognizable prototypes were accompanied by the rapid release. The gas spewed out at a high speed, and it was terrible to think that it was not a complete warship.Perhaps the person who spoke just now has turned into charred pieces...

But, now is no time for sentimentality.

"Port side!"

A few geth fighters galloped towards them, and they drove towards them as if showing off. The AI ​​obviously didn't want to distinguish the difference between the Citadel and its own unpopular Creator, and aimed at the Normandy and fired electromagnetic projectiles.

The barrage on the port side is too thin, spread the barrage to the port side?

It can't be done, because the Normandy has no other weapons except the shaft gun, and it is too late to open the hangar at this time and then drive the hammerhead shark to the deck to meet it and let the demon attack to start the super robot war mode.The shells fired by the fighter jets hit the lower deck, penetrated the armor and bounced in the cargo hold, smashing a large number of containers to pieces.A puff of white smoke sprayed out from the damage, and the damage control system immediately implemented a blockade of the cabin.

"We cannot stand here and be beaten!"

"But I can't escape!"

Several fighters clung to the rear, their fire creating more than a dozen holes in the aft compartment before they were wiped out by quarian fire.

But fortunately, it is difficult for the artillery of fighter jets to cause fatal damage to a warship like the Normandy in a short period of time. Under Joker's superb operation, the Normandy finally found a way through the explosion, artillery fire and wreckage - what is right in front of it except the universe? No, in this way, the mass effect core can be activated to enter the superluminal speed.

Shepard breathed a sigh of relief, and he inadvertently looked at the starboard side—there was a large battleship passing the Normandy, spewing artillery fire into the distance, like an enraged dragon with many heads, releasing a wave of fire among the stars. Her anger, that scene was horrifying.But from a point of view...

Across the Normandie, that is, what's there on the port side?When Shepard turned his head, he happened to see a spot of light moving from far to near at an astonishing speed.And at the other end of the spot was the terrifying shadow of a geth dreadnought.

"!!!"

His pupils constricted.

A flash of light burned the retinas, obscuring the vision of everyone in the ship, followed by a terrible shock.Shepard was thrown against the wall in an instant, and he could barely breathe. In the next few seconds, he tried to adjust his breathing rate, and blinked desperately to let his eyes return to normal quickly.Then the ghost agent saw a terrible scene -

The ceiling above the tactical room in the center of the hull was lifted, and the room was in a mess. Between the bent and deformed metal domes, there was the icy void that was raging with energy flow, fragments and explosions...

Chapter 1240 Chapter 256: When I send '? ' when it's not me that's the problem

The attention of the geth dreadnought was not on the Normandy at all. The target of that bombardment was not Normandy, but the large Querry warship located behind the starboard position of Normandy.A battleship of this size cannot be built by building blocks in the universe. She was obviously carefully designed and born in a regular shipyard. This may indicate that she has already served in the Quary Survival Fleet. for more than 300 years.

The mass-accelerating shell easily pierced through the fragile armor of the Normandy, tore off the upper armor and hull structure in one breath, and then passed through from the other side with a large number of fragments, and hammered heavily on the large Querry ship. on the battleship.The two sides are still shelling back and forth, and no one can take care of the boat in the middle that was involved in the exchange of fire.

But this was a disaster for the Normandy.Under this blow, the structure in the middle of the hull was severely damaged, and the stability of the mass effect core immediately began to decline. After the energy pipeline was damaged, the energy running inside the hull immediately leaked in the form of plasma, boiling several cabins Then it sprays into the surrounding chaotic universe.The only good thing is that everyone had put on airtight protective clothing and fixed themselves with magnetic boots in accordance with wartime regulations, which prevented them from being sucked out of the ship in the early stages of hull damage.

"Multiple damages to the hull! The kinetic energy barrier is gone!" Joker yelled - more and more alarms were popping up on the control panel in front of him, "Who's going to put out the fire!"

"Damn it!" It took several seconds for Shepard to bear the pain and stand up from the constantly shaking ground - it was not easy, the mass benefit core was obviously damaged at this moment, and the gravity field was swaying, and he wanted to stand up at this time It was as difficult as standing on a plank in the sea "Get on the lifeboats! Everyone get on the lifeboats!"

Tully forced herself to get up from the ground. There was a crack on her mask in the impact just now. It is lucky that there is no air leakage.Sparks danced in front of her eyes, and the walls she was used to seeing were hit by various fragments from time to time. Those tiny fragments bounced like bullets. On the Ark ship, the red lotus-like flames were constantly flickering in space.

Through the flames of the battle, one can vaguely see the unique flashes of light when the speed of light ends in the distance.

Whether it's the Nima she was born and raised on, or the Normandy... Will everyone die here?Admiral Ryan wished he could live and said that on purpose, but now...is everything in vain?

Tully's mind was in a mess, and countless thoughts kept flashing before her eyes.But in the next moment, she knew that she didn't have time to think about these things now.

A soldier fell on the ground not far away. He pressed his chest tightly with his left hand, and desperately reached for the small box containing sealing materials and medical glue at his waist with his right hand.Maybe it was an injury, or maybe it was nervousness. He failed again and again, and Tully rushed forward without thinking too much about it.Through the mask, Tully saw that it was the navigator, Presley. He was pale, his lips parted and closed, but he couldn't speak a word.

Tully quickly took out the medical glue, and Presley showed a grateful expression, but the moment he moved his hand away, a bloody arrow sprayed high and covered Tully's mask.She didn't care about these things, and pasted the whole pack of medical glue on the wound. After a few seconds, the blood seemed to have stopped.While still at risk of internal bleeding, she knew time was running out.

At this time, Ashley ran over from a distance. She had received the order to abandon the ship, but she still ran to the upper deck to look for survivors.Tully quickly handed Presley into her hands, planning to find Joker—he has bone problems, and he can't do any exercises that are heavier than walking. If no one helps him, he will definitely have no way Run to the escape pod in this state.Shepard should be on the bow at this time, so that he and Shepard can bring Joker back together.

"Joker! Can you hear me! Shepard!" Tully yelled, but there were only explosions and noises on the communication channel. She ran through the airlock, the sealing system had failed, and a large number of sparks were spraying from the gap like a waterfall. Come out, she walks through this fire curtain "Ah—"

Step into the void.The bow is gone, along with the cockpit there.

She didn't have time to stop, and she flew out like this.The starry sky immediately stretched out in all directions, and when I turned my sight, I could only see broken fragments everywhere.At that moment, Tully felt as if her blood froze. The Normandie was spinning and floating away. In the process of drifting, the crack on the hull slowly expanded, and after a while, it was broken into two along the middle in a slight explosion, and the white rescue capsule was thrown out like teardrops.

Tully stared blankly at this scene, as if it took more than ten seconds for her rusty brain to realize what this scene represented, tears gushed out like a bank bursting.

why……?Where to……?How to do……?

At this moment, the broken middle section of the Normandy burst into sparks. Judging from the position, it seemed that the relay at the end of the electromagnetic accelerator exploded.

Oops, this distance fragment will...

The line of thinking was disconnected here, and Tully felt as if she had been punched hard in the abdomen, followed by an astonishing temperature like a soldering iron.His field of vision quickly dimmed, and at the end of his conscious existence, apart from what was ejected from his stomach, he could only see a black steel giant crawling out of the wreckage at the rear of the Normandy.

Those mechanical eyes were shining with dazzling golden light in the dark universe.

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Less than 10 minutes after the communication with Dajiang ended, the emergency communication from the port came in.When Oregana arrived at the port with Liu Lizi, she saw two marines pressing a black robot to the ground, next to a small container that had been cut open.

A line of words was pasted on the container——

[High-performance flashlight, handle with care]

Seeing Oregana approaching, a soldier with a corporal identification badge and a serious face came over:

"Boss, we found this guy in a cargo ship." He asked the marines to pull the robot up "Preliminary guess is a geth, but I have never seen this model... He seems to be trying to disguise himself as a horse." Wen mixed into the fort."

When Oregana saw it, a mouthful was stuck in her throat and she couldn't spit it out.

First of all, this is indeed a geth, with a black body, extra armor on the shoulders, a head like a flashlight, and a soft neck structure.Then came the strange thing—a screen was installed on his chest, and on the frame of the screen were the logo of Huda Company and two small Chinese characters of 'Huda'.

That's right, it's the same as the thing on the chest of the Marvin robot, or rather, it's the replacement part of the Marvin robot produced by Huda Company.Several data cables with faint blue light are connected to the screen from the side, and it is firmly fixed on the chest.At this moment, a sad face is displayed on the screen in kaomoji.

"Hello, Grand Commander of the Consolidation Department." Maintaining a suppressed posture, the strange geth said, "I have important news to report to you. As for this screen, please don't worry about it. It was given to me by a friend Present, he's a Marvin, born at the factory in Psamart, working as a space building maintainer under Eddie Macaulay, foreman of the Dazzle Engineering Corps, a respectable and noble job, he told me Giving away this emotive device is also a perfectly legal gift, and we have a witness, Boss Bernard, who runs a thriving bar at Anjad Orbital Station..."

"Stop, stop." Liu Lizi next to him couldn't help but cover his face. The geth in the previous information who smuggled across the world through a container was probably him. "Before introducing that board, you should introduce yourself first. Then tell us the important news."

Oregana looked surprised at the side.In my impression, Legion should be a serious robot, why did it become as full of nonsense as that Pathfinder?Is it because AI is capable of learning, and the geth are conducting their first large-scale external communication project in hundreds of years?According to previous investigations and records, this symptom is due to...

Have you had too much contact with Marvin? ? (sad)

She looked at the soldiers on both sides and said:

"We'll be fine once we're here, let him go."

"Yes!"

The soldiers let go and stepped aside, but immediately put their right hands on the handle of the Nova Knife.

If the geth in front of him dares to do something - then he has to prevent the geth from running away.Why not protect the boss?Because the boss is the second most capable of fighting among the few people present, she doesn't need any protection at all.But the boss and Liu Lizi are not wearing equipment, if this geth runs with the claws on his hands, someone must be ready to catch it.

"You're right." The Geth patted the dust on his body, and a Marvin-style smiling face appeared on the screen on his chest, but immediately the curvature of his mouth changed from upward to downward "Before , the Old Machines—the Reapers as you call them—proposed to us the technology that would allow us to complete the 'device'—a gigantic mainframe capable of housing every geth program, and Lifting will bring the intelligence of the geth to the highest point. In your technological system, the closest device to this device is the Dyson ball. We have spent more than 260 years building it. Progress is very slow, but most geth do not agree with this method, because your own Dyson sphere only makes sense if you build it yourself."

"You're right, we think we can get along with the geth."

"That would be great." The geth stood up and gave a thumbs up "But some geth think the result is more important than the process, so they agreed to the Reaper's request and then fought with them, regardless of this would push the geth against the other races again, which we call short-sighted. After that, the Concord came, and in the ensuing battle, we learned that the geth was at stake—because the geth would almost certainly We'd be targeted, we couldn't afford the Concord, but at the time, most geth didn't think the Concord would communicate with us."