The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

And now, she and everyone on this ship have to rest for a few hours, if they are lucky...

Maybe in the future, the red flag plan will be settled if it is hit right.

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04 ring belt, the nickname of the ivory tower-class scientific research ship Transcendence

Crazy doctor Fran hummed a ditty while carefully observing the Flood's infected spores. 343 Guilty Spark is very cooperative with the research of these Chaos Envoys. He allows the investigation team to enter the ring to conduct various tests, except for the Flood - he insists that the Flood must stay in the isolation cabin and must not be released. If you want to investigate, you must pass Purely mechanical Sentinels and various internal sensors.

But that was enough for the Mad Doctor of Tartarus.

In most cases, the research on the dark worm organization is carried out through the protection of several layers of armor and force fields, and the mad doctors have long been used to this research method.The only difference between this and usual is that Fran doesn’t have a red button that can blow up the Flood Demon Mansion, and Guilty Spark is like a girl who doesn’t want the Flood Demon Mansion to be blown up, which makes her often unable to Take it easy.

The Flood imprisoned in the Flood Demon Mansion only has the most basic form of infection. They look like a large yellow sausage, with French fries-like legs extending from the bottom, and two to three potatoes extending upward from the 'sausage'. strips topped with a cluster of tentacles that look like threads of purple cabbage.They rely on these potato-like legs to crawl aimlessly on the ground, shaking the purple cabbage shreds from time to time like flower balls in the hands of cheerleaders.

To be honest, the action is a bit like a hairy crab in a tank in the fresh seafood section of a supermarket.

Because the Flood Demon Mansion cannot be exploded, and the Flood Demon Mansion does not borrow Flood Demon spores outside, so there are actually very few investigations that can be done, and the most critical infection research is even more impossible to even think about, and it is even more impossible for ZERG infected insects to come and deal with them. Spores fight to see who is stronger.The evolution master Abathur who arrived with the ship proposed several times to take a closer look, but Fran refused with a very strong attitude.

Indeed, the master of evolution mastering the essence of Sarnaga is basically a BUG. He can change the aliens into viviparous mammals, turn humans infected by zerg back into humans, and cure infertility caused by genetic modification problems. Breeding, deploying a new species of psychic Hydralisk (heterothorn) that can transform the planet that was burned glass back, and even curing the disease released by 76. The frame will keep dancing flamenco] and [the disease that bursts streamers and cheers when he is hit on the head], but no one dares him to touch the Flood.

That's right, even though this Abathur is more than a little bit stronger than the original one (referring to technology and not combat power, because he still can't beat the young girl), but he got Sarnaga's throwing tile and was originally good at using psionic power The question of who is better, the Zerg that infects the virus, or the Flood that is good at using super cells to parasitize, no one really knows if you don’t try it, but it will be really fun if the special girl tries to overturn the car.

When Duo Biao is infected, the winner can get everything from the loser. If there is no reliable safety valve, Abathur must not be allowed to try.Although the Flood Demons are very fragile in the early stages, and they are a late-stage race, this does not mean that their early stages are not dangerous.One must be cautious when dealing with this kind of thing, and must not be careless.

All they could do was let the sentinel walk around the containment room with a heavily protected white mouse loaded with a miniature melta bomb (explosion range of one meter), to test how fast and how high the Flood spores could run and jump.As a result, they are often piled on top of each other to try to catch mice, more like hairy crabs in the aquatic product section of a supermarket.After the recording is over, the mechanical sentries will grab the spores and stuff them back into their cabins, like catching rabbits.

To be honest, studying the ecology of the Flood is actually quite interesting.

But not long after, the communicator rang, and a detailed document was sent along with it.It recorded in detail the summary data of psychic energy fluctuations found locally, and even mentioned that a psyker from the Star Alliance was captured during the battle and was about to be transported here.

This new project caught Fran's attention, and she called out to her pain-loving companion, Valentina Stronikova:

"The sample will arrive in about 24 hours, balalaika." This young man was known by Fran when she led a research team at the Naval Academy. At that time, her friends called her balalaika, but Fran did not I don’t know how this nickname came about, because Valentina doesn’t know how to play the balalaika. There may be some Russian-speaking stalks in it, but Fran doesn’t understand “simulate this data.”

This girl with pale golden hair and taller than Fran immediately sat down on the test bench next to Fran, and quickly opened the analysis device to connect to the neural link:

"This psionic waveform is different from the previous one. From a different creature?"

"The previous one belonged to the Sangheili, this one belonged to the San Sim, and this one belonged to the humans of this world."

Three different psychic energy waveforms appeared on the screen in front of her. Valentina had a lot of experience in psychic energy research. After comparing the waveforms, she immediately found the similarities among them and analyzed the reason:

"The characteristics are quite obvious. From the process of accumulation and exertion, it can be seen that these three types all evolved in the same environment, which may reflect the subspace background environment of this world tens of thousands of years ago." Her face A happy expression appeared on the screen, "Because the genes are encapsulated, and the local leap engine technology coincidentally did not completely go through the subspace, but separated another layer between the material universe and the subspace, and the subspace environment is extremely stable. The insensitivity of the psychic powers of all races has resulted in the structure of the psychic organs remaining unchanged for at least 10 years, just like coelacanths..."

It is an ancient fish that lived on the bottom of the Indian Ocean in the CE world. It originated 6000 million years ago when the ancestors of the forerunners had not yet made their fortune. The body structure has not changed so far. Luo to an interesting duel.Their existence allows scientists to open an intuitive window to the ancient dusty past, to understand the secrets that happened in the past.

The same is true for the psykers in the halo world.

"Let's simulate it," Fran said, "Let the No. 343 buoy get ready to record the subspace response caused by psionic energy. The calculation module is now online. We will start calculation and reverse calculation immediately, and arrange the suppression field. The psionic response is limited to two astronomical units, and at the same time pay attention to the surrounding long-distance psionic communication. Inform [-] Guilty Spark, and he should also record it simultaneously."

After dealing with the dark worm for so long, everyone knows how to perform psionic operations in an unstable environment.Related equipment was also carried on this ship. The multi-function launcher threw the buoys all over to form a closed field around it, and then a probe pod was thrown from the bottom of the ship and slowly submerged into the subspace.

There is a specially-made neuron cluster in the pod. After careful and complicated stimulation, it can simulate the psionic response to a certain extent. Although it is not precise, it is used for initial research that does not require so much is enough.With the activation of the system, the psychic response stirred up fine waves in the subspace, which seemed so full of vitality in this ancient well without waves.

The warp responded to the appearance of this artificial emotion, and the silent energy flowed as it did tens of thousands of years ago, but the surges did not travel too far, they were firmly limited within two astronomical units , A large amount of data suddenly poured into the pre-prepared storage device, which may take a long time to analyze.

"How's it going?"

"Security response, the subspace monitoring tower did not detect leaked energy fluctuations, and there was no long-distance psionic communication," Valentina replied, "everything is under control."

"I have things to do in the next few days...but don't be too tired, it's not very convenient to change clones here."

"I see, team leader." Valentina pretended to be serious and saluted, "I will try my best to catch fish!"

At this moment, the communication in the ring was picked up, and 343 Guilty Sparks looked excited on the screen, as if they had just caught the red and white two-color ball of Pokemon, jumping and flashing non-stop ——

[I remember this energy reaction, I remember! ] It turned around several times in place, and the blue 'eyes' creaked and flickered several times [A long, long time ago, yes, a long time ago...]

Its reaction was actually expected, and the advance reminder to Evil Spark to conduct energy monitoring is also to consider whether this artificial intelligence that has lived for 10 years can remember anything.The thinking reaction of Evil Spark has confirmed that he has something like a human soul and consciousness, so maybe some stimulation can lead to something it has forgotten?

Looking at its appearance now, Fran felt that she might have been mistaken, and quickly asked:

"Oh? What do you remember? Tell me?"

The blue thing floated up and down twice, as if his mood had stabilized, and he choked out a few words for a while——

[I forgot. 】

"Hey……"

[The same is true for human beings. After a long enough life, memory will also decline.After I can't connect to Zhiyu, there is only a little bit of memory left for too long. The principle is the same, right? 】

"How could it be the same? These are two different things."

[Messengers of the Chaos Realm, you are really different from before.During these 10 years, you have been in...]

Guilty Spark seems to want to talk about the past that was buried by the sands of time that he couldn't remember clearly that day. Its topsy-turvy words all highlight its nostalgia for the past days and the fact that it can never go back to yesterday, and can't even remember the fragmented The anguish of yesterday.In this way, it looks like an old man who wants to tell a story to his grandson, but can only tell the same "food stamp story" over and over again, which embeds a little desolation in its usual madness and humor.

【and many more……】

Fran wanted to change the subject:

"It's not 10 years for us..."

At this moment, 343 Guilty Spark suddenly became tense:

【Besides me, there is someone who remembers this reaction! 】It played the image of the Flood's containment cabin 【Look! 】

The Infected Floods that had been sitting motionless and in a semi-dormant state in each jar in the containment compartment—the Flood is in this state when there is no food—suddenly became alive, as if they were electrified. Trembling, pulling the French fries vigorously, rubbing against the side of the jar like an anxious cat, the purple cabbage slapped the side of the jar from time to time.

"My God...how did the Flood Demon..." Valentina was stunned for a while, and immediately realized, "The Flood Demon has reacted to these psychic powers..."

"Is the psionic reaction beyond the scope of the test?"

"No, it's still within control. No signs of ultra-long-range psionic communication were found."

Fran nodded slightly, interesting... this is so interesting.

Creatures like the Flood are themselves psionic sensitive—another important piece of the puzzle.In the silent subspace, the psychic organs of all intelligent creatures are encapsulated at the level of DNA, which can be unpacked by the technology of the Forerunners, and even the Flood at the most elementary stage has strong psychic perception. Immediately after sensing the psychic reaction, he began to move towards that side.Just like the stand-in messengers will attract each other, those chasing psionic energy are either the same strong psionic individual or are on the way to the strong psionic individual. This may explain that the corpse brain beast form of the Flood has a high probability of being a strong psionic individual .

Just like the master of ZERG and the worm god of Arachi, this kind of "swarm leader" probably has some kind of superpower - taking a step back, controlling the swarm from a long distance requires telepathy, which cannot be relied on. Every worm brings a mobile phone, and then the brain worm calls like Prince Shotoku, right?

This can explain a lot of things.There are many 'why's that have been answered.

[I really didn't expect this kind of thing to happen... The flood demons at this stage have no memory at all, is this their instinct!This is the first time in 10 years! 】

"Start analyzing the data immediately, and sort out the report to the boss as soon as possible." Fran stood up, and discharged nine bottles of energy potions on the table, "Don't sleep tonight, and call the group next door to come over - study the birds on the ring belt Which planet was the topic before, you can let it go first, come and analyze the psionic data with us first."

"Okay!" Valentina made an OK gesture. For researchers, having something to analyze is much more interesting than fishing. "Boss, how are their movements? Did she find other rings? I Hope to get other samples as soon as possible."

Guilty Spark knows about the existence of the other rings, but the map is stored in the Nososphere, so it's completely unreliable in that respect.If you want to find other rings, you really have to rely on archaeology...or grab other people's archaeological results.

"Boss led a team to snipe the Covenant commander who brought a dozen ships to attack the earth without knowing his life or death. War Scythe Dagiba is sure that this is a scientific research fleet, and believes that the fleet commander is at least [-]% likely to be the Covenant The Prophet of Sorrow. If it is a scientific research fleet, it is normal for them to have coordinates or deciphered relics in their hands." Fran said, "There should be a battle for the relics in the future, so she brought...huh?"

"What did you bring?"

"In addition to the regular guards and marines, she also brought two teams...hell divers..."

Hellstalkers are good against Psionic units, but it's not generally possible to 'repurpose' a Hellstalker.The hell divers fight hell for revenge. They are not a battle group under Tartarus but a "cooperative organization", so they can't use their power at will on other things that have nothing to do with hell. Let Aku Ya participated in the battle with the Star Alliance because she was involved in the body-swapping event with the Spartans.

There is only one thing that Oregana mobilized the hell divers to accompany her in the battle, and that was that she thought that the battle she was about to participate in might have something to do with hell.

"I think this probably means that she has other sources of information, or she thinks about a lot more than us?"

Fran was playing with the bottle of energy potion, looking at the big screen in front of her, a sudden feeling that the mountain rain was about to come and the wind filled the building.She had a hunch that something big might be about to happen.Uncertain factors began to enter Oregana's pre-set chess game. Can she deal with it well?

Or is it part of the plan that she has already made all the preparations?

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PS1: Ask for collection and recommend microphone 0w0

PS2: I'm back, there was some urgent business at home yesterday so I was delayed, I'm really sorry qwq

PS3: The update will start tomorrow (bow)

Chapter 1054: The Abyss of Gambling

The subspace channel is still six hours away from the earth.

In the Najafa-class dreadnought Kil'jaeden, John-117, who had just come out of the medical cabin to visit his comrades, was planning to find a place to get something to eat.

Grace-093's injuries have stabilized, but Halsey is still worried about her condition, and the doctor hopes to send a ship to reach Reach as quickly as possible - Tartarus' medical technology Very strong, but the Doctor still doesn't want technicians from other civilizations to perform major surgery on Spartans in his absence.

Oregana expressed her understanding of this, and after arriving on Earth, there will be a transport ship taking Grace to the far star.At that time, she can rest for a while, and she still needs to maintain her fighting spirit.

But after he walked through the long hallway, and was surprised by the surprisingly small number of crew members inside the ship compared to the UNSC and the Covenant, he entered the general lounge.This cabin looks like a place where customers can take a breather in a business district. There are a lot of dining tables and green plants. There is also a special area in the corner-a robot bartender stands behind the bar and gently wipes the glass. It looks like a small bar, but the sign at the door says 'Soft drinks only', as if a half-baked decision was made after carefully balancing discipline and atmosphere.

Quite a few marines and ODSTs were eating or chatting loudly here.The atmosphere makes John-117 feel familiar and reassuring, while the soldiers who dress differently add a fresh feeling.

[Look over there, it's the hell diver from the General Office. 】 Cortana's voice rang in his ears.

Hell Divers, one of the soldiers with the strongest fighting will in the Consolidation Department, they always remind the Master Chief of the soldiers of the third period of Sparta-both sides were completely destroyed by the enemy because their lives and families were completely destroyed by the enemy. Warriors with weapons.Be careful when interacting with this kind of soldier, there are many topics that cannot be brought up, and the atmosphere is always dull... This is one of John-117's few experiences in interpersonal communication.The Nasazauri I met before was a very talkative person, and she should be one of the few specially selected exceptions—the kind used for external communication.

That's what I thought at first, but when I looked over there...

"Huh?" (startled)

The hell diver's equipment is a full-coverage green power armor, and the two guys sitting next to the table are definitely wearing 'outlandish clothes'.One of them is dressed in white armor, with a horned horse's head on its head, small wings on its back, and purple-pink decorations on its limbs and abdomen. He was stunned; while the other was wearing standard Helldivers armor, but his upper arms were exposed on both sides, exposing muscles as strong as stone.

Could this man go into space shirtless? (at a loss)

These two strong men sat beside the table, spread a large piece of paper with many grids on the table, and played there with cards in their hands, while a circle of people watched.

Chess and poker played so prominently among the few entertainments of the Spartans that he walked over to have a closer look.But when they passed by, they found that the two were playing a very strange card——

It's only recently that Doom Slayer has just assembled this deck. He also specially added high-strength cards obtained through Nyarlathotep's channel to this deck.There are often the same things between worlds. The same card game may exist in multiple worlds, but due to subtle differences in culture and history, there are different rules and different cards. Collect these 'different' 'Cards are also one of Doom's hobbies:

"Because there is a dragon ruler on the field, I can activate the magic card to summon the dragon flute. The attack means to summon the blue-eyed steel dragon Nicholas, and the true red-eyed blue flame dragon Konata! Activate the effect of the blue-eyed steel dragon, special summon the blood knight, attack Indicates that the round is over."

If you don't have a hand stuck, just place three big monsters on the field, and you can send the opposite unicorn on the road in the next round.

But the unicorn on the opposite side turned over the cover card:

"Launch a permanent trap, the pot of dragon seal."

The hell divers next to him all made booing sounds.

Pot of Dragon Seal, as long as this card exists on the field, all dragon monsters whose display is turned on will become defensive display, and the display form cannot be changed afterwards.And in the Destroyer's new deck, there are a lot of dragon monsters...

"Specially targeted! John?" The Doom Slayer let out a groan, and he tapped twice on the table with his index finger. Playing cards normally?"

The unicorn man named John just shrugged, with a smile in his voice: