Chapter 276: The Ark! The Final Word! Sealed for 100,000 Years

Chapter 276 Ark Celestial Body! The final word! The missionary who has been in the dust for 100,000 years!

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Seeing Ott Cunningham and Halsey turning away, AI Loki once again fell into a state of silent standby. In fact, it had listened to all the conversations between Leon and the executives just now.

If we analyze the best candidates for the interstellar governor of the "Halo" universe from the perspective of artificial intelligence, there are actually only two people, Morgan Blackhand and Solomon Reed.

Then it was the turn of Ott Cunningham or Asako Mori, Luo Li, and Song Zhaomei to be the top executives of giant companies.

After all, through the comparison of data between the two sides, Morgan Blackhand's behavior is quite sophisticated when it comes to dealing with the tasks of the human camp.

This steady style of "making decisions before taking action" gives people a sense of impeccableness, and is quite reliable in dealing with the "Halo" universe where the overall situation has been decided.

Li De is also quite good. During the process of instigating rebellion against the Star Alliance, he led Wadami to separate the Star Alliance and was the first to realize the possible signs of rebellion among the elite members.

If Morgan Blackhand's style is prudent, then Li De is shrewd. He knows the direction of every link very well, or can predict the impending danger in advance.

On the surface, Li De seems a bit dull, but in fact, this veteran who has been in the system for many years is smarter than anyone else.

Let him be the interstellar governor, which is not far behind.

The situation of Ott Cunningham is more complicated. The first point is that she has no relevant experience in governing. Her speeches and publicity may be useful.

But her courage and courage cannot make up for her lack of governing experience. Experience and experience are very important to an executive!

The reason why V was able to quickly assume the position of interstellar governor is because he has sufficient coaching experience and knows how to control his subordinates and deal with difficult troubles.

Military and political affairs are essentially the same thing, and executive officers need to have enough experience in managing people. Senior executives like Ott who have been hiding behind the scenes for many years are somewhat worrying in this regard.

The most important thing is that as a governor candidate, the most intolerable thing is "stains in qualifications." Although the mistakes that Ott made in the past were not big, there are still stains.

This alone has limited her upper limit!

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, AI Loki still thinks that Morgan Blackhand and Li De are the most likely to take over the role of 004 ​​"Halo" interstellar governor.

However, as a cabinet AI, it will not actively interfere in the governor's office. After all, it has no decision-making power and only has negligible proposal power.

Not long after, a Skyhawk shuttle, escorted by four ornithopters, quickly left the hangar of the Infinity-class aircraft carrier and flew towards the portal area on the ground.

After flying to the outskirts of Mombasa, the ornithopter continued to maintain its original altitude, while the shuttle slowly descended until it landed smoothly on the wasteland.

As the cabin door opened, Rita, Cage and others, equipped with a suit of power armor, and a dozen Spartan warriors walked out of the cabin.

Following closely behind were the scientific researchers from giant companies headed by Otto and Halsey.

They also wore airtight chemical protective suits and engineered exoskeleton mechanical devices to avoid sudden accidents.

After everyone walked out of the cabin, the Skyhawk shuttle took off and retreated, while Ultra and others continued to move forward, heading towards the internal passageway of the matrix leading to the portal.

Looking at the closed metal gate in front of him, then at the entrance, and seeing the huge main matrix structure, Ott Cunningham couldn't help but sigh:

"The Forerunner civilization is indeed the former overlord civilization of the "Halo" universe. Their technological level, even according to our current development progress, will take at least two hundred years to catch up!"

To Halsey, Ott Cunningham's words sounded like a passage from Versailles, a purely pretentious sense of déjà vu.

Given that the Forerunner civilization is almost invincible at the basic physical level, even if the world's giants develop for another thousand years, they will be able to catch up to half of their level, which will be considered quite impressive!

However, if you think carefully about the history of the giant companies in the world, only half a century has passed since the establishment of the giant companies to their current scale.

Such rapid development progress can be called a miracle of human civilization. Halsey was silent for a while.

Half a century ago, the giant company from the main universe was just an ordinary military industrial company in the Little Chinatown of Night City. It made its first pot of gold by relying on gang fighting and the war started by the president.

Along the way, giant companies recruited troops and recruited talents, conquering, suppressing or destroying many cyber companies.

But the final outcome is that Li Ang developed the indigenous human civilization whose technological level was only reflected in the "Mass Projector" and "Crystal Palace" buildings into today's interstellar civilization.

Although Halsey doesn't know what Li Ang has done, the only thing she can be sure of is that their boss Li Ang is the key to the evolution of human civilization and even transcendent ascension!

At this time, Halsey looked at Ott and couldn't help but ask:

"Director Ultra, as far as I know, you have worked for a giant company a long time ago. You must have witnessed the entire process of the rise of the giant company."

Facing Halsey's curious question, Ott did not deny it. He just nodded and replied truthfully: "Indeed."

"I used to be just a hacker wandering in cyberspace, with a little research on network technology, but now the talents in the research department of giant companies are more capable than I was then."

When saying this, Ott was still quite proud. The rapid rise of the giant company of Universe is inseparable from the big picture of the boss Li Ang.

Knowing people and making good use of them is also an important part.

"So sometimes I envy you. Under the leadership of the boss, you can get such rapid technological development. Unlike us, the technological level has been stagnant for a long time."

Halsey's voice was somewhat angry. In addition to the gap between the rich and the poor, the rebellion of humans in the Halo universe also fell into a bottleneck period with technology and could not improve social welfare.

This is like humans in the agricultural era, who ate according to the sky. Once there was a natural disaster, a large number of people would die, but in the industrial age, fewer humans suffered from famine.

In today's interstellar era, having enough food is no longer the biggest trouble for humans. Living a better life and improving the quality of life is the top priority.

The political clarity within the giant enterprise of the universe is also inseparable from the prosperous social atmosphere and powerful welfare benefits.

As soon as Halsey finished speaking, he walked towards the passage leading to the inside of the matrix: "Let's go, Director Ott, it's time to do some serious work now."

"Yes."

Immediately, Halsey, Ott, and many scientific researchers gathered in front of the metal gate and began to carefully examine the clues and traces on it.

At this time, Halsey found a sphere-like terminal device on the side of the giant metal gate. Under the gaze of everyone, Halsey stretched out his hand and touched the device.

Accompanied by a "boom" sound.

A dazzling blue light instantly appeared on the metal sphere, and the information on it was the text of the forerunner civilization.

Immediately afterwards, the location where everyone was located began to tremble violently, and the huge metal gate began to expand to both sides.

As the long-sealed gate was fully opened, dust and stone debris fell, covering the exoskeletons of everyone with a layer of slightly embarrassing yellow fine sand.

At the same time, a huge gate tunnel with a length, width and height of 100 meters appeared in front of everyone.

However, faced with such a scene, the scientific researchers of the giant enterprise who had long been accustomed to entering and exiting the star gate did not express any surprise or surprise.

For safety reasons, the Spartan warriors led by Rita and William Cage took the lead. They held large-caliber grenade guns and hard light cannons and aimed at the deep tunnel entrance.

With the pulse scanning device of the power armor, Rita saw through the thumbnail that everything inside was normal and there was no suspicious sign of danger.

Obviously, there was a dead space inside the tunnel.

However, Rita did not relax her vigilance. She gave instructions to the members of the reconnaissance team behind her, asking them to release the scanner device with a wider range of reconnaissance.

After a while, the two soldiers immediately set up the scanner device and launched reconnaissance balls deep into the tunnel. These balls are made of room-temperature superconducting ore and can collect and analyze the surrounding environment.

Soon, through the detection of the reconnaissance balls, Rita and others saw the internal structure of the tunnel. After learning that there were no other living creatures, they were relieved.

"Let's go up first, you wait for my news."

After that, Rita immediately led the team into the depths of the tunnel, and in a blink of an eye, the team led by Rita disappeared, as if they had plunged into an unknown space dimension.

But on the thumbnail, Cage saw Rita and others passing through the depths at a very fast speed. Obviously, they had successfully reached their destination.

[Everything is safe! ]

After hearing Rita's reply, Cage immediately called the remaining Spartan warriors and the scientific research team to enter the tunnel.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Ott nodded to Cage, and then led everyone into the depths of the tunnel, only to see a wide hall deep in the space.

In the center of the hall, there is a rather conspicuous terminal device, which is probably the device for controlling the portal.

Halsey, who has done a lot of research on the control habits of various devices of the Forerunner civilization, immediately stepped forward, stretched out his right hand, and controlled it again.

Since the Forerunners regard humans as recyclers, they must keep everything simple. The portal to the outside of the Milky Way must not be that difficult to control.

Sure enough, when Halsey's hand touched the terminal device, it was like triggering some kind of genetic verification. When the recognition was successful, the whole hall immediately responded.

Boom--! !

The originally stable hall space suddenly became shaky, and dazzling blue light was also emitted from the terminal device.

Just when Halsey thought it was about to collapse, the terminal device projected a whole star map, and all the Forerunner relics in the Milky Way appeared in front of them!

At the same time, on the surface of Mombasa, due to the opening vibration caused by the terminal device, the matrix device outside also projected a beam of light towards the sky.

At the end of the beam, a vortex channel several kilometers long was formed, like a jump space torn out by a jump engine.

Obviously, that is the portal to the Milky Way!

At this moment, in the center console of the Infinity-class aircraft carrier.

"Boss, Director Ott and his team have successfully opened the portal, and the locations of the Forerunner ruins have all been marked out!"

AI Loki's report was full of excitement. With this intelligence information, the Halo universe would be completely in the hands of the giant company.

"Well, I know."

Leon nodded. With the specific landmark information of the Forerunner ruins, it would only take a few years to completely inherit the Forerunner's technology and even find a think tank to explore [neurophysics]!

Although the basic physics knowledge of the Halo universe may not be applicable to other universes, the technological weapons created are really powerful.

Halo array, hard light weapons, Sojourner dreadnought, including the Mantle that may be dug out later!

"Now order the fleet to pass through the portal."

With Leon's order, AI Loki immediately conveyed the order to various departments, and the battleship array, including the Infinity-class aircraft carrier flagship, passed through the portal not far away one by one.

When the blue light shone through the observation deck and into the interior of the flagship, Leon saw that the surrounding time and space did not seem to be distorted at all. When the light disappeared, they came to the periphery of the Milky Way!

Obviously, the principle of this portal is not to tear time and space like the jump space, but to go directly from a certain "dimension" to the outer edge of the Milky Way, which is hundreds of thousands of light years away.

A span of hundreds of thousands of light years, in just a moment, such a powerful space technology force is enough to prove the brilliance and strength of the Forerunner civilization.

The outer edge of the Milky Way seems to be no different from the solar system. It is also the dark and vast deep space of the star field, but soon a behemoth came into everyone's eyes.

That thing is a giant celestial creation with a diameter of 10 earths, the Forerunner's "Ark"!

Seeing this giant structure that can make the Universal Corporation ascend to the new leader of the "Halo" universe, even the always steady Le Ang can't help but be excited at this moment.

As long as this big guy is taken down, the integration of the 004 universe will be finalized!

Immediately, Leon turned around and told AI Loki:

"Immediately send two additional naval fleets here, and then order the technicians of the Iron Hand Corps and the Scientific Research Department to go to the control room of the Ark."

"Finally, order Halsey and Ott to enter the portal as soon as possible. We must completely take down this Ark!"

Since the portal has been opened, Leon must naturally ensure that the Ark belongs to the giant company, so he must first deploy naval troops around it and strictly prohibit other life forms from approaching.

According to the principle of "there must be monsters near the treasure chest", there may be some small BOSSes on the Ark.

So it is definitely right to deploy troops in advance.

"Yes, boss!"

After AI Loki agreed, he immediately issued orders to each department in turn.

And the staff under the central console cheered and celebrated that this three-year journey was finally coming to an end.

Leon walked to the observation deck alone. He was thinking about David's affairs in his heart. If nothing unexpected happened, David's mission should be almost completed now!

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Epoch Galaxy, Requiem!

At this moment, David, who had taken over Leon's confidential mission, had led an ace vanguard, the Iron Hand Legion, to this silent galaxy.

That's right, the place where the missionaries were imprisoned was Requiem.

This so-called Requiem was not actually a naturally formed earth-like planet, but a giant front-line combat base built by the Forerunners.

It can be said that Requiem was the military fortress of the Forerunners!

And in this Requiem, there is also a very powerful "safe" called the Nether Tomb.

The Nether Tomb is a stasis control device that allows the body of a designated unit to enter a meditative state, so that the body of the unit is in a completely inert state, keeping the flesh intact and the metabolism stopped.

Obviously, the function of the Nether Tomb is almost the same as the stasis cage of the "Happy House" of the original Ji Laoden.

However, the Forerunner's Nether Tomb device has a more powerful function, which is to connect the meditators living in the Nether Tomb with the Noetic Domain.

This means that meditators can freely read the contents in the noetic domain, and read directly, which is quite convenient and fast!

If the previous shield world giant structure is a long-sealed computer, it will freeze when used suddenly, and the network is not good.

Then the tomb of the underworld is a mobile phone that can be turned on and used at any time, and the noetic domain inside can also be read at any time!

After a while, David and other warriors successfully landed on Requiem. With the help of the Forerunner AI [Passionate Witness 031], they passed all the way and came to the resting place of the missionary.

In the core area of ​​Requiem, David saw an oval hibernation capsule that was more than 10 meters long, and that was the device that sealed the missionary!

This is the only known surviving Forerunner in the Halo universe, so at this moment, all the warriors, including David, could not help but concentrate.

They are about to open the hibernation capsule to check the Forerunner God of War who has been sleeping for 100,000 years-the Missionary!

[Captain David, do you need to open the tomb of the underworld? ]

At this time, the Forerunner AI Passionate Witness 031 asked David.

"Well, open it!"

David nodded in response, and then all the Astartes warriors around him turned their power armor to the best defense mode, and held their grenade launchers, all aiming at the tomb that was about to be opened.

If any accident occurred, they could shoot and kill the missionaries inside at any time.

Immediately, with the help of the enthusiastic witness AI, the Nether Tomb device began to slowly open, and the oval device emitted bursts of rumbling and cracking sounds, and dazzling blue light shot out from it.

At this moment, everyone felt as if time had stopped.

As the Nether Tomb gradually opened, the hibernation capsule split into three petals along the center line, spreading outward like a metal flower.

And the calyx in it was the long-sealed missionary!