The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

"Today we investigated three buildings." Oregana said as she walked, "The outpost on the river beach, the building on the cliff, and the one in the forest... so far, nothing has been obtained. How is the team?"

The scythe of war said that in the original "Halo", there is a forest swamp next to the building where the flood is locked.But other than that I don't know anything.Everyone followed the experience and carefully investigated.But doing so is very inefficient.After all, the diameter of the entire ring is [-] kilometers, like a belt tied around the earth, and its inner surface area is also surprisingly large. Coupled with its complicated environment, even relying on the "pipe fox" to transport troops back and forth is also efficient. limited.

Liu Lizi followed Oregana, and she skillfully used the claws on her wrist to prevent herself from falling into the swamp:

"I have searched 170 buildings, paying special attention to those in forests and swamps. However, there are more than ten times as many similar buildings that meet the standards. It is estimated that we will not be able to find them for a while. Should we camp at night or call a transport plane back to the ship? "

"Let's go back to the boat. We can't sleep in a place where there is a flood." Oregana sighed. "We just need to leave a beacon at that time."

The Star Alliance's fleet is probably already heading this way, and they must find something before they arrive.Regardless of whether that thing is the 343 Guilty Spark or the Flood, the Covenant must not be allowed to take the lead.

Oregana made up her mind so seriously, she pointed to the ancient building hidden in the jungle ahead, and said to Liu Lizi:

"We will rest after inspecting that building today, and call the transport boat to wait for us outside."

"Ok!"

In a dark corner where no one noticed, the blue monocular of the robot was shining dimly, like the dimmest shooting star in the night.In the cavity inside its body, the mechanically resonant air emits a slightly high-pitched buzz——

[I found you. 】

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Covenant fleet temporary anchorage.

Tyr Vadami set off with his guards to the unknown galaxy.There is only one order left, and that is to continue to investigate the human galaxy... that is, Eridanus, and collect as much information as possible before he returns.

For Tier Vadami, this is a necessary caution, but people's likes and sorrows are not the same, and their ideas are different.The other commanders were not happy with Tire Vadami's decision.The situation of Eridanus is already very clear, and there is no point in continuing to wait, except to increase troubles and waste food and patience.

No...the meaning may exist, that is, when attacking Eridanus, Tier Vadami, who has already returned from there, can also accompany him, so that he can get two battle results-what a wishful thinking ?You occupy everything by yourself, but you want everyone to be here with you and wait.This made many people feel very dissatisfied, especially those of Kirahani.

These extremely fanatical creatures have no wavering in their faith in the prophet's decree and the pilgrimage it describes.In general, the Kiralhanis show clear disdain for the Sangheili, and are resentful, even angry, that the Guardians of the Prophet are Sangheilis rather than Jiralhanis.This negativity reverberates between the two races in all aspects, whether it is in the streets of the city of fraternity, or between the battleships in the fleet anchorage.

War Chief Craig, leaning on his own gravity hammer, has a troubled expression on his hairless face - his mouth is drawn into a horizontal line, and his gray skin makes him look like a stone statue.

"Are we going to wait?" The Kiralhanis use different facial hair styles to signal their social status, but Craig is different.He was severely traumatized by a flamethrower attack on the battlefield in his early years, so after recovering, he chose not to grow his beard and hair to commemorate that ignominious defeat.Right now, he is gnashing his teeth loudly, scaring the Grunt next to him from moving. "I think this is a complete waste of time."

"Super Commander Till Vadami is too cautious." The guards wearing iron-blue armor around him urged, "We can attack directly, there is no need to wait any longer. He just wants to put everything in order." Is it in your hand?"

The Clarity Prophet on the other ship watched all this and gently touched the short beard on his chin.

This low-level prophet is very patient, but he also began to think about some other things-as the investigation results show, in front of such a huge fleet at present, the human fleet of Eridanus is not an opponent at all, deliberately waiting to be raised It didn't make sense for al-Wadami to come back.Although Tir Vadami claimed that humans might be trapped, the Prophet of Clarity scoffed.

Any trap that humans can make is just a sand castle in front of such a huge Star Alliance fleet.

And in the absence of the super commander, no one can give the order to attack...theoretically.

But only in theory.Now in this place, no one can challenge the authority of the Prophet until Tir Vadami returns.Moreover, it is something that an adult above wants to make the Sangheili people suffer a bit and improve the reputation of the Jiralhani people, and now I can do this just right.

The Prophet of Clarity blinked his eyes and found the right moment to make his own projection appear on the bridge.The ship's bridge was full of Kiralhanis, shaggy warriors who always stink, and he couldn't stand that.In the Hall of the Creator, he can give orders to the entire fleet in a peaceful and comfortable environment.

This feeling is very comfortable.

All the Kirahani people on the bridge bowed to the projection of the Prophet of Clarity, and War Chief Craig also took this opportunity to speak loudly and respectfully to the Prophet of Clarity:

"Master Clarity Prophet, please let us launch an attack! We can smash those cunning bastards!"

He half-closed his eyes, as if thinking, but was actually looking for support in the comm link—no one here could challenge the authority of the Prophet, save another Prophet.Soon, the Prophet of Clarity got the response he wanted.This compatriot hit it off with him, because this is not something that requires too much brain... just attack, crush the opponent with great strength and win, and everything is over.If Vadami's speed is fast enough, he will still have time to participate in the final purification ceremony.

In front of the Jiralhani people and the Sangheili people who are eager to make contributions, the Prophet of Clarity sat on his anti-gravity chair, made a gesture with a solemn attitude that was considered incomparably profound to the believers, and then opened his eyes——

"Very well!" he said. "Warriors! Go and claim your glory! We shall prevail!"

All the soldiers shouted with joy, and they took their positions in the battleship.Not long after, the light of the jump engine tearing apart the space appeared in the anchorage one after another.Although the commander-in-chief was not there, there were two Star Alliance mixed fleets full of warships, and they quickly rushed to the Eridanus, which was waiting for the battle, and the commander-in-chief and the flagship were also absent.The two fleets will slam into each other without a Supreme Commander.

And the supreme commanders who left the team will collide with each other with the same fierce momentum on the other side of the universe...

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It's a very topical ghost face recently (confirmed)

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Chapter 1028 Chapter 67: The second army finally arrived

343 Guilty Spark carefully concealed himself, looking at the figures of the two warriors trekking in the jungle.

That's right, wearing red armor with golden stripes and decorated with a symbolic skull. This is one of the shapes of the messenger of chaos, and the corresponding outfit can be found from the database.But it looks very strange... According to the database, the messengers of the Chaos Realm are violent and unstable, with a strange and inhuman appearance, and fierce offensive and defensive outbreaks between each other from time to time.They are the most primitive and rough emotional reactions in the minds of intelligent creatures. Only the most intelligent people know how to communicate and cooperate with them, but even so, they must be extremely careful, because the Chaos Realm is a ruthless servant who likes to unleash havoc in the world. on those who claim their power.

Why did the forerunners cooperate with the messengers of the Chaos Realm?Why does Chaos Realm cooperate with Forerunner again?The Flood is a big threat because creatures devoured by the Flood no longer have an emotional response, and Chaos isn't going to be happy about that.But after the belt was activated, there was still no emotional reaction in the universe... From their point of view, the auras of the Flood and the Forerunner were not much different, so why did they choose the side of the Forerunner?

What happened in the first place that made the pioneers choose to cooperate with the Chaos Realm?At what point in time did the cooperation between us happen?

343 Guilty Spark knew that it was impossible for him to know these things, and the specious appearance of the two fighters in front of him made him puzzled.The energy response was right, and the symbols and colors were right, but otherwise nothing was right.They look sane and calm, using metal vessels instead of emerging from purple space rifts, and their shape is quite satisfactory. 343 Guilty Spark doesn't want to approach it before it has figured out anything. It still needs to observe carefully and collect more clues to allow itself to draw a reasonable conclusion.

At this moment, it noticed that one of them suddenly stopped and looked left and right, so it mobilized the transmission system of the ring itself without hesitation to get itself out of place.

Oregana didn't pull out the chopping axe. She ignited the propeller and leaped high from the swamp, and fell heavily into a bush. The impact of the landing lifted all the mud and nearby vegetation:

"You're looking at...huh?"

She looked around but saw nothing.

I clearly noticed some kind of peeping sight just now. It was not insects or birds, small creatures that would quietly watch themselves in the woods, but the sight of 'intelligent creatures' with clear emotions and consciousness tendencies.The emotion is very light, but it is indeed a living creature, not a surveillance machine or something. Oregana can clearly feel the subtle projection of the subspace, which is very weak compared with humans, but it is similar to the survivors. There is also a fundamental difference in the AI's consciousness, which hardly produces projections in the Warp without the wetware psionic oscillator.

That is a living intelligent creature.

"Boss, what's the matter?" Liu Lizi also landed beside her. She assumed a fighting posture and scanned her surroundings vigilantly. "Enemy?"

"I don't know." Oregana shook her head. "There is something looking at us. It may be alive—a clear conscious response. It is unlikely to be the Flood or artificial intelligence."

"Can it be tracked?"

"Difficult," Oregana swallowed, "but it must have something to do with the evil spark. The control of the teleportation system in the ring is with the evil spark. If something is teleported here, it can only be it, or On something with higher authority."

There is a teleportation device inside the belt, and it seems to be an omnidirectional transmission with little restrictions. As long as you are on the belt and have permission, you can easily reach another area from one area.It is very difficult to achieve this with a single-person device, but it can be done if you have a complete set of rings and a full range of space operating systems.

The most important thing in the transmission is to know the two detailed coordinate data of the starting point and the target point, which are easy to obtain in fixed facilities, just as the land-based fortress guns have the shooting parameters of the entire bay area, and the belt conveyors also Know the coordinates of each area inside, so you can transfer quickly and efficiently.In this case, it is difficult for individual equipment to trace the space accurately, and even if it can be traced, it is meaningless to catch up with the "pipe fox", because when the landing craft flies past, the opposite side can do it twice in a few minutes. Three or more teleports to get rid of the pursuit.

You can't win by maneuvering. If the opponent deliberately doesn't intend to appear, then you can't catch it even if you turn it upside down.

Whichever way you look at it, it's disturbing.What I detected was a conscious reaction of a clear biological nature, that is to say, the guy who just teleported away in front of me was not a sinful spark but someone else.There is a big discrepancy between this and the 'original plot'. The guy who can use the teleportation system on the belt is definitely not an ordinary person.

Liu Lizi guessed:

"Maybe... a living forerunner?"

"It's best not to..." Oregana replied with a gloomy face, "Let everyone be careful and use weapons with caution."

"Yes!"

There are indeed pioneers who have survived until now, and they do possess considerable power, but Oregana also has the courage and confidence to face them.But she doesn't want to contact them at this point in time - the Star Alliance is coming, the Pillar of Autumn is coming, and the atmosphere of Eridanus is also full of wind and rain, and the war is about to break out. She doesn't want those who should be The fallen empires that have long since disappeared in the long river of history once again stretched their hands into what they are doing now.

But it has come to this point, even if all the marines are withdrawn, it is meaningless-that is deceiving oneself.The other party had already seen the ship and the landing marines, but there were no prompts or warnings, as if they deliberately allowed themselves to come in.Therefore, Oregana felt that there was only one thing she could do at this moment, and that was to continue the investigation.

Just pretend that you didn't find the other party, and wait for the other party to choose to talk.Since it wants to see, let it see enough.

After the marines received the order, they turned on the detection intensity of the sensor to the maximum, and then carried out the investigation according to the original plan.Just like Oregana once encountered, something seemed to be wandering around the ring, and every once in a while a team would report that the sensors detected subtle energy and motion reactions, but almost all At the edge of the detection range, it is not very clear.

The two sides continued to maintain a safe distance in this tacit state.In any case, when the facility where the Flood is held is found, the other party will definitely come out to make contact, right?

In the next few days, the marines walked in the man-made ecological environment while recording the sights that appeared from time to time.Investigate buildings, take notes, find your way to the inside of the ring, watch out for every door, and do all sorts of bio-scans carefully.As the investigation progressed, more and more information was collected—such as the composition of the gravity field of the ring belt, the principle of the anchoring system (by the way, I deduced how to pick up this thing and run away), and some Mapping of internal passages.

Then it's numb.

The internal structure of the ring is so complicated that it is jaw-dropping... After all, the thickness of the ring is longer than the long axis of the Leviathan-class Titan ship—the inside of the Titan ship itself is already so complicated that the general landing force will have to do it if they are not brave enough. Lost to the point of running out of water and food - hundreds of kilometers in width and 10 kilometers in diameter.Normally speaking, it would take a professional investigation team to come and spend years to complete the investigation of this kind of place. If there is a real battle here, the width of the battlefield can even put tens of thousands of people into it without any trouble. question.

Hundreds of soldiers plus a bunch of transport vehicles, after a week of sweeping, I knew that it was impossible to sweep out anything.

In the original, Tyr Vadami's men and the Pillar of Autumn's marines fought each other here, and found the internal control room almost immediately, and then dug the Flood out by accident... can do Seeing this kind of thing is more miraculous, right?It stands to reason that you really have people building houses and living on the ring belt. The ring belt has not been discovered for several generations, and the drawing room and the control room are not surprising.

Is it because there were at least three protagonists in the ring at the time?

On the seventh day, in the early morning of the East Ninth District of the ring, Oregana looked at the tree crowns stretching to the edge of the ring in the morning light below from the Prometheus fast troop transport ship——that was a genuine 10 years Primeval jungle.The primeval forest, which grows wantonly in a well-adjusted environment, but never crosses the threshold, looks lush and lush in the morning sun, and the water vapor transpires between the branches and leaves to form mist that permeates the forest.The average height of the branches of these plants is between 90 and [-] meters. Their roots are stuck in the muddy soil. The river has soaked these roots again and again over the long years, turning the soil into a swamp. In the narrow space formed by the plants, it is difficult for even fully equipped marines to move in it.

In my memory, the facility to seal the Flood Demon is in this kind of environment—but there are quite a few similar environments, and the range is quite large. Coupled with the occasional and irregular communication interference, it is simply difficult to find. The human scalp is numb.The sound of rumbling wind kept ringing in her ears, and she heard the container compartment behind the fuselage bounce open, and hundreds of drones were launched, like a swarm of bees rushing out of a hive.

With good communications, these handy machines can greatly improve detection capabilities on the surface.They find hidden buildings and entrances and mark them, and then the marines go to investigate the structures below the ground-once they enter the ground, the quality of communication will drop sharply, and the drones will not be able to do so without setting up signal repeaters. Move on, but there are too many places that need to be erected.

"The deployment of the drones is complete, the second batch today." Liu Lizi leaned in the chair, pointed at the electronic board with her legs crossed, "If there is no result today, do you want to continue to send more troops?"

"We don't think it's necessary." Oregana replied, "The increase in troops will not have any substantial effect. Even if the number of people is doubled, the efficiency of the increase is still too low for the entire ring. It's like using duck feet to give The Titanic that just hit an iceberg is like scooping water, and two more duck feet are useless. Now all we need to care about is what the peeping guy thinks of us."

"But it has been peeping until now!" Liu Lizi scratched the ears on the top of her head a little annoyed, "It has been watching for a week and still hasn't shown up, what exactly does it want to see?"

"I don't know, but we think it will get the information it wants soon, right?" Oregana stepped forward and helped Liu Lizi scratch her ear. "I have a feeling that it seems to know us."

"Ok?"

"This is the data we detected when we returned to the Jackdaw for supplies last night." She shared a series of received data with Liu Lizi, "Look, from this curve, it is scanning our energy response , and stayed in this frequency band for a while."

Oregana said, pointing to one of the curves.

"Is this the energy response of being a subspace creature?"

"Yes." Oregana nodded, "The fact that it will stare at this shows that it has a certain understanding of the subspace. We think it has confirmed our identity, but it still doesn't show up because of some reasons. The forces of chaos may have visited this universe many years ago, and they may have intersected with the local civilization... However, the forces of chaos have changed a lot in recent years. If there was an intersection 10 years ago record, then judging by this record, we must feel very strange.”

"It's really difficult..."

"But soon, it should be able to see what it wants to see." Oregana took off her helmet and let the wind outside blow her face. "From the perspective of time, the Star Alliance should be here soon... They certainly can't accept that we're desecrating something holy, and we can't walk away and give up this 'end of the pilgrimage' to the Covenant. Then our essence will be revealed in battle, and the observer will know It sees what we are, and then we decide what to do based on how it responds."

"Including... blowing up the girdle?"

"That's right, including blowing up the ring belt." Oregana grabbed the armrest and let her upper body lean out of the cabin at a dangerous angle, "But we don't think it will reach that step."

"Intuitive?"

"After all, that guy is not hostile. Sometimes, from the emotional fluctuations I read, I can feel that he is quite excited...in a positive sense."

"Well……"

Liu Lizi nodded, she continued to concentrate on her work, but suddenly heard a voice from the communication——

[This is the control tower, we detected a spatial response ten seconds ago.It's a Covenant warship!Number seven!Capital ship class three!Light battleship four! 】

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The warships designed by humans tend to place the command area in the lower part of the front of the ship; but the Star Alliance is not the case. They build spaceships more rationally, and the control room is hidden deep under layers of solid armor. indestructible.Besides, the Sangheili didn't like being surrounded by a bunch of control panels. They used anti-gravity rays to form a grid, and then used the grid to hold up an empty platform-they preferred to call the shots from there.

In such a gorgeous and sci-fi-looking bridge, Till Vadami stared intently at the data projection that appeared in front of him. He even felt a little dazzled and couldn't say a word.

He wasn't the only one who fell into this half-aphasia. All the Sangheili warriors on the bridge were like this.Originally, I wanted to start fighting with the possible military facilities of human beings immediately after arriving, but there are no military facilities here, and it exists in the universe. It is an extremely stalwart building-it is a ring, and there are pioneers everywhere on the outside. Mark, its scale is far beyond everyone's cognition.