Chapter 249 Rules Are Dead, but People Are Alive!
The Noetic Domain is a huge knowledge base inherited by the Forerunner civilization from the Pioneers, where the origin, knowledge information, genetic species and other information of the entire Halo universe are recorded.
And the [Neurophysics] that Leon desires most is most likely in the Noetic Domain.
To enter the Noetic Domain and read the information inside, you need to connect through an access point and have a professional tool platform to read, otherwise it is easy to be killed by the massive data flow.
It just so happens that the Shield World itself is a huge Noetic Domain access point. Humans can connect to the Noetic Domain through this huge reading tool to read the information in it.
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If there is no Shield World, it is equivalent to losing the reading tool, and the Universal Giant Enterprise will not be able to connect to the Noetic Domain normally and find [Neurophysics] from it.
So what the Giant Enterprise fleet has to do is not only to come here to explore the remains of the Forerunners, but also to protect this huge Shield World celestial body and never let it be damaged!
Otherwise, without the connection function of the shield world, the Universal Corporation will not be able to easily obtain the information in the intellectual domain.
"Very good!"
Halsey tried her best to restrain her inner excitement. She knew that she had made a great contribution on this trip.
If she really got [Neurophysics], she would definitely be promoted to one of the executives of the giant company.
Thinking of this, Halsey turned off the holographic screen and said to Li De beside her:
"Notify Captain Morgan and tell him that we have found the relics of the shield world. The ships, world seeds, intellectual domain access points, and neurophysics are all here."
"These things are all selected by the boss. Let him convey them to the boss as soon as possible."
Halsey thought of Li Ang first in detail. When facing the orders of the two leaders, Li Ang and Morgan, she must report her work situation to the top leader first.
"Yes." Li De nodded.
Then, Halsey continued to speak, asking Reed to relay to Morgan Blackhand:
"In addition, the low-Earth orbit area of Shield World has been completely cleared. Let Captain Morgan lead the team to occupy the favorable space as soon as possible, and request more reinforcements to take over Shield World."
Halsey didn't need to remind him of the latter sentence. Morgan Blackhand also learned about the situation of the Covenant fleet being dragged into the gravitational field through the reconnaissance aircraft.
As a qualified commander, he certainly knew what to do.
"Yes."
Without a word of nonsense, Reed immediately uploaded the situation here in an orderly manner to the Long Night parked in low-Earth orbit.
To be on the safe side, Reed also specially used superluminal communication equipment to write an email to Leon and sent it out.
On the other side, Halsey once again faced the [031 Enthusiastic Witness] Forerunner AI in front of him and gave it an order:
"I now need you to help us control the Star Alliance fleet inside the shield world and make them bow down to us. Can you do it?"
Halsey could see that the entire shield world was a huge gravity field weapon, and the Forerunners' use of gravity technology had reached the pinnacle.
The marine creatures wandering in the sky, the warships that could release gravity distortion, and the gravity field traction released by the shield world all showed the Forerunners' profound attainments in gravity technology.
[I'm sorry, I can't execute your order. ]
After rejecting Halsey's request, the Forerunner AI continued to add:
[My creator set a rule in my basic protocol that no attack can be launched against any intelligent civilization. This is to avoid harming the visiting recyclers. ]
[Unless they cause serious damage to the shield world, I will organize a counterattack and attack them. 】
The Forerunner AI's refusal was justified. Every intelligent species would be wary of the rebellion of intelligent machines. Who can guarantee that [031 Passionate Witness] AI will not steal from the public.
They stole the scientific and technological achievements of the Forerunner civilization and developed their own mechanical civilization.
This agreement is precisely to limit the occurrence of intelligent machine rebellions. This shows how many detailed deployments the Forerunners have racked their brains to set up in order to allow humans to successfully complete the recovery.
And Halsey soon realized the real reason for this restriction. Just as she was about to give another order to the Forerunner AI, the AI continued:
[However, I can mobilize all the Sojourner battleship arrays inside the shield world. You only need to pick out 10 battleships to form a powerful gravity field array. ]
[These battleships are enough for you to "convince" those alien species of the Star Alliance, and all you have to do is send a dozen people to control these battleships. 】
The intention of the Forerunner AI to "kill with a borrowed knife" couldn't be more obvious. The Sojourner warship was controlled by humans and had nothing to do with it. It was just providing suggestions.
Seeing this, Halsey shook her head and smiled. She didn't expect that the AI's thinking was so active. The rules are dead, but people are alive.
This method is already helping humans in disguise to attack members of the Star Alliance, but it has not triggered the agreement.
But before Halsey could praise the Forerunner AI, the other party put forward its own demands first.
That is, I hope that the troops of the giant enterprise can help eliminate the flood demons on the surface of the shield world.
Because it has detected that the number of Flood is increasing day by day, and due to the flesh sacrifice of the fanatical religious believers of the Star Alliance, the number of Flood is beginning to slide in an uncontrollable direction.
In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes and the tragic incident of the Flood invasion again, it is necessary to completely extinguish the flames of their revival before the Flood spreads!
But it is obvious that the Forerunner AI, which is restricted by the agreement, can only passively attack the Flood, but cannot organize a large-scale temple defender to completely wipe out the Flood on the ground.
After all, it does not have that authority!
Now that the human troops have arrived, it has the hope of completely clearing out these ulcers.
Halsey did not hesitate at all to the request of the Forerunner AI, and nodded immediately.
"Don't worry, after dealing with the heretics of the Star Alliance, I will immediately notify the large troops to come down and wipe out the Flood."
The progress of the improvement of the Scorpion Tailed Lion virus against the Flood is almost there, and Halsey can send people down at any time to spread the virus spores and kill these troublesome Flood Zerg.
"Now you immediately mobilize the Sojourner warships. You don't need too many. Ten is enough."
Halsey continued to give orders to the Forerunner AI. When the time comes, she will let David and others lead the team to surround the Star Alliance fleet.
[As you wish. ]
031 enthusiastic witness AI promised, and then immediately summoned the Sojourner warships that were stranded not far from the ruins through its own authority.
At this moment, Halsey communicated with David and Reed beside him: "You two, I now need you to lead the Astartes warriors to the Star Alliance and catch all the heretics there."
"But try not to have a fierce conflict with the other party. We need to capture people alive for questioning, and we need an insider to get into the Star Alliance."
During the time she worked at the Universal Corporation, Catherine Halsey has completely adapted to the environment here. The efficient and concise office style advocated by the giant enterprise is very much in line with her appetite.
Even if she directly gave instructions to David and Reed, two old employees of the giant enterprise, she could do it without any worries.
Facing Halsey's request, David did not care about anything, but asked back:
"We didn't bring any translators this time. Even if we let the intelligent AI learn the language of the Star Alliance, it will probably take some time."
David's concerns are not unreasonable. Humans and the Star Alliance don't speak the same language, and communication is a big headache.
You know, before communicating with other civilized species, the world giant will select and mobilize AI tools and a team of linguists to jointly promote a new translation system.
And the whole process, in order to achieve basic communication, takes at least one month.
But now, in addition to weapons and equipment and soldiers, their group brought with them the intelligent AI for decryption, but no decent real-time translation tools.
"David, this requires your wisdom."
Dr. Halsey smiled and patted David's leg armor, saying: "When gods communicate with mortals, they don't need language. Just one action can make the other party understand your intentions."
"If the other party doesn't understand what you mean, you can express your anger appropriately and let them cooperate with you actively."
Halsey's words were a little difficult to understand at first, but David Martinez, who was quick-witted, only thought about it for a moment and immediately understood what she meant.
In short, you just play dumb and communicate with the other party with body movements. First, get the person to come over, and then we will come up with a translation system.
If the other party refuses to cooperate, then kill one of them first to scare the monkey.
"Okay, I'll do my best!"
David nodded, and he looked at the young and ruthless Dr. Halsey in front of him. This girl is only in her 20s, but I didn't expect that her methods are comparable to those of executives of giant companies.
"Then I'll trouble you. Let Rita's team take care of the situation here. I'll wait for your good news here."
Halsey smiled, and at this time, [031 Passionate Witness] AI also mobilized the huge Sojourner battleship.
Unlike the battleships in everyone's impression, the Sojourner Dreadnought's standby state is not horizontal, but vertical, like a giant sword inserted into the ground.
At first glance, no one would think it was a battleship, but a giant building similar to a tombstone!
"This... Is this the battleship of the Forerunner civilization?!"
David was a little dumbfounded. He really had never seen a battleship flying vertically, but what surprised him even more was that the Sojourner was only part of the tombstone building!
The tombstone pillar in the middle is actually the Sojourner's combat base station, a device for mooring and releasing energy, and the blade-like objects on both sides that look like pendants are the Sojourner Dreadnought.
In addition to forming an array and emitting a powerful gravity field distortion, these Sojourner Dreadnoughts can also be combined together to emit deadly energy rays in an "octagonal" posture.
It is a bit like the sense of déjà vu of Calabash Brothers combined together to launch the ultimate move.
Such a novel battleship form and attack method really opened the eyes of David and his group of country bumpkins who have never seen the world.
[Recyclers, please land on the battleship! ]
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At the other end, the inner space of the shield world.
At this moment, the cruiser fleet of the Star Alliance has been steadily anchored above a field. Eight cruisers are hovering steadily in the air through anti-gravity devices, keeping a distance of 200 meters from the ground.
As we all know, under normal circumstances, the scale of the armed forces of the scientific expedition team should be comparable to that of the formal main battleship formation.
But the Star Alliance is obviously more honest. It is a scientific expedition team, and it only sent less than 10 cruisers, not even a decent aircraft carrier flagship.
The expeditionary force of the Universal Corporation only needs to send an Infinity-class aircraft carrier and a few small destroyers to basically beat this advance fleet of the Star Alliance.
Not to mention the 10 main battleships of the Forerunner civilization, the Sojourner Dreadnought!
Here, the gates on the belly of each ship of the Star Alliance have been opened, and a dazzling beam of light has begun to be released. This is the gravity elevator that the Star Alliance has reversed based on the Forerunner technology.
The Forerunners have quite advanced points in the gravity technology tree, and the Star Alliance, who are keen on "Taobao", naturally got these technological devices for free from the Forerunner's ruins.
At this moment, a large number of Star Alliance armored units quickly came to the surface through the gravity elevator, and then carried out a series of defense and reconnaissance operations on the ground according to the instructions of their superiors.
Among these Star Alliance troops, the most conspicuous are naturally the Sangheili, who have strong physical fitness and high combat talent, that is, the elites.
Relying on their ability to fight and their loud voices, they have become the commanders of various combat units of this advance team without any surprise.
A standard Star Alliance combat team is led by an elite warrior wearing power armor. There are about 10 combat team members, consisting of Kigar and Angui.
The appearance of Kigar is similar to the jackals on Earth, and looks like the werewolf Garurumon in "Digimon", so they are also called jackals.
Although these jackals look a bit thin, they are full of flesh. They are nearly two meters tall and have a keen sense of smell. They often serve as scouts and snipers in the Star Alliance's combat teams.
Relying on their innate talents, jackals are equivalent to shooters or fragile assassins in the Star Alliance's combat units.
Therefore, in terms of standard weapons and equipment, jackal soldiers mainly use long-range weapons such as plasma pistols, needle blasters, and energy sniper rifles.
From the jackals' choice of weapons, it can be seen that the nature of this race is inclined to be "old sinister" and "backstab".
It belongs to a race with low moral quality and tends to be bandits.
In the Star Alliance camp, jackals have no obvious factional bias and do not belong to any sect.
They have only one idea, that is, to drink and drink today, rob money, food, and women!
Before being convinced by the elites and joining the Star Alliance, the jackals would bully civilizations weaker than themselves, highlighting the characteristic of "bullying the weak and fearing the strong".
After joining the Star Alliance and leaning on the big tree for shade, they used advanced technology to develop their sideline business - that is, being interstellar pirates!
Today they go to the east to steal chickens and dogs, and tomorrow they go to the west to kill and set fires. In short, there are four words, they don't do human things.
Facing the evil jackals, the attitude of the prophet of the Star Alliance is to turn a blind eye. They originally made their fortunes by robbing tombs, and they don't have any moral package.
Based on the principle that there are too many lice, they are not afraid of bites, so the prophet also let the jackals develop their sideline business as pirates at will, as long as they are good enough in fighting.
Therefore, in the Star Alliance's military camp, the jackals are standard fence-sitters. Whoever is awesome is their boss, and whoever can make them rich is their "god"!