"What the hell is this..."Ian smashed his mouth. Looking at the surface of the ayl-like shield world during the Brood War. The fungus blanket is boiling, the infected are running around, the fighters are roaring, and the corpse brain beast is scolding its mother with its teeth and claws.

When the first Covenant ship crashed on the surface of the shield world, the corpse brain woke up from hundreds of thousands of years of dreams.

Although most of them are dead, there are always lucky ones who follow the still powered module and fall controllably on the surface of this shield world.

The Flood Demons of this world began to starve after they escaped from the containment facility about 100,000 years ago and devoured the biomes left behind by the surface forerunners of the Shield World......

100,000 years...

forced the flood demons here to evolve... In other words, it has degraded the plant community, a biological tissue similar to a fungal community, which is spread on the surface of the shield world, and uses the chloroplasts in the fungal community to absorb that little bit of sunlight, absorb the water on the surface, and absorb nutrients in the soil.

Then, down to the infected and up to the corpse brain, all of them are vegetarians......

This is 100,000 years... 100,000 years!

When the Covenant fleet arrived in the shield world two months ago, even the tips of the incombed's tentacles glowed green.

It was the gene engraved in flesh and blood, written in genes, and the gene for eating meat, which was forced to seal for 100,000 years to see the reaction of food again.

The Brainmon's pleasant hunt on the surface of the shield world only lasted until E1103 fired the Wave Cannon.

After that, a large number of Covenant ships were damaged, and countless fragments were attracted by the gravitational pull of the shield world and fell towards the shield world. In addition, a large number of Covenant ships whose main reactors failed or whose thrusters were damaged were forced to land on the surface of the shield world.

This should have been a pleasant and crazy feast for the Flood Devil.

However, it turned into an all-out war against the Flood Demons.

Incidentally...... The wreckage of the starship attracted in low earth orbit bombarded the surface of the shield world like a random orbital strike. Considering that the Star Covenant is now only relying on a few relatively intact cruisers that have landed on the surface, the wreckage of the starships that fell into the atmosphere of the shield world is basically heading towards the flood demons, which makes the corpse brain beast egg painful.

"Hold the line of fire! Keep firing! Suppress them! Get the revenants out! "A golden-armored St. Heli man wielded an energy sword in one hand and shot at the flood demons with a plasma submachine gun in the other.

"I saw two anti-aircraft souls in the crashed compartment over there, I covered you, rushed over and drove back, the rapid-fire plasma cannon on it is a good weapon against the ground forces." The ghost-faced beast didn't care about the conflict with the St. Heli people, and he didn't have any interest in being parasitized by that kind of strange creature.

The three St. Heli men armed with Photon submachine guns and rifles nodded, signaling that they were ready.

Ghostface activates the gravity hammer and slams it on the ground. The red shockwave blew away most of the nearby Flood Demons, but it also affected a few Gollum people who were infected and confused.

"Let's move forward!" The ghost-faced beast shouted, and a white-armored St. Heli nearby heard it, arranged some of his subordinates, and led another part of his subordinates to follow the ghost-faced beast towards the compartment of the ship where the anti-aircraft revenants were parked.

"Gollum and Gnoll work together to build a firenet, and you guys will fly in the Stalker support vehicles to find firepower holes and fill them." A few Gollums, Gnolls, and St. Helly officers nodded, and grunted with their subordinates to assign tasks.

"Gnolls, you send some snipers to the commanding heights, and focus on cleaning up those guys whose heads glow and blow themselves up, they are too much of a threat to our position." The gnoll officer nodded, and called a few snipers to let them go to the high ground and guard the high ground themselves.

"Hey, how long do you think it's been since we've fought so together?" The Golden-Armored St. Heli patted the shoulder of his other companion. "It's been a long time since they've been so united."

"It's so long ago that I can barely remember what happened." The white-armored St. Heli spread his hands. "Gollum people, SF waves, flee against the wind. Gnolls, business everywhere, and hunters, no one knows what they're thinking............ The ancestors are above, and we have no civil strife so far, all by luck. ”

"I don't know if it's luck or not, but what I do know is that the Saint-Sim can be pulled off the altar, and the midpoint of the pilgrimage is this giant space station of the Precursors, which I put up with. But the abundance of unidentified creatures on the surface of this giant space station is puzzling.

Can anyone tell me what these things really are? ”

"God knows what these are, we can't contact the Prophet of Sorrow right now, and we can't find the way through the inner space of this world. The kamikaze Martyrs have not yet given further instructions. ”

"No matter, anyway, those creatures that can infect our compatriots and only howl look more like enemies than talking humans, gather more ground troops, let's stabilize this place first, or we will all die if the defense line collapses."

"Yes, Commander."

"Archon, the Covenant's ships are disengaging from our line of fire. They released a large number of carrier-based aircraft and landing ships to the surface. There are also quite a few ships in the fleet that are lowering their altitudes and carrying out ground support shelling. ”

"Cooperate with the Covenant's ships and get out of the firefight. Dispatch a landing force, equipped with the "Crazy Ivan" module, taking into account the characteristics of the flood demon, prohibits the artificial intelligence from directly connecting the neural of the combat robot, and the control mode is converted to "F2A". Ian pondered for a moment, the purpose of this time is not to destroy the Star Alliance, twenty arrest the three high-ranking prophets of the Star Alliance, stop the war, and then control and destroy the flood demons. If you have the energy, help solve the problem of 7 years of madness of intelligent AI.

In addition, you have to watch out for the Prometheus Legion, the AI rebellion, the awakening of the missionaries, the ancient corpse brain beast that I don't know where, the pioneer suspected of hiding in the Big Magellanic Nebula, and so on.

"By the way, there are a few flamethrowers for each unit, and the small individuals of the Flood Demon seem to be very afraid of fire." Thinking about it, Ian's face turned bitter. "Linda, how's the production of strategic bombers?"

"It's off the assembly line, and now it's being carried by the large aircraft carrier Uraga class to start combat tests on the other side of the planet. But why did you suddenly let the production of such a large strategic bomber be produced? This kind of thing has never appeared in the previous combat system......" Linda's avatar appeared on the communication screen.

"Because the goal of the battle is different from the purpose of the battle, our previous battles were all reverse asymmetrical battles...... We can't even guarantee air supremacy in the combat airspace, so how can we put such a huge bomb load but relatively poor survivability into the battlefield. "Ian at the holographic podium is looking over the battle of the shield world.

"But...... To be honest, if I ignore the Uraga-class aircraft carrier flying in the sky now, it will look like it was during the Cold War in the 20th century......" Linda glanced out the window at the large bomber that had been catapulted off on the ejection deck.

"Huh?"

"Anaheim Electronics has done a reproduction of classic fighter jets, you know?" Linda took off her glasses and wiped them with the corners of her clothes.

"I know, it's the project I started." Ian remembered the days when he was designing the VF-35 in the world of Macross World. To be honest, that kind of fuselage is really good-looking, deformed, heavy firepower, high maneuverability, high speed, folding knife type variable sweep wing......

Now Ian sometimes comes up with upgrades, just like the Iron Man that has hundreds of improved models......

"The 20-ton bomb-carrying strategic bomber you asked for this time was picked up from this project, oh...... Only the B-70 bomber is not an Anaheim project, it is a hypersonic bomber that is still in the UC world. ”

Intrigued, Ian clicked on Linda's strategic bomber project.

Tu-22R (reset) 3, Tu-160R, Tu-95R, B-1R, B-52R, B-70H (from UC Universe).

Escort fighters, VF-35F, F-12 hypersonic interceptor, F-108 hypersonic interceptor, F/A-37 Eagle Talon fighter-bomber (from top secret flights), MiG-31 heavy interceptor, MiG-37 fighter, MiG-39 (prototype MiG 1.44)

In addition to the F/A-37 inspired by the top secret flight of the movie, the B-70 Valkyrie bomber still installed by the UC World Earth Federation, and the VF-35, a newly developed heavy variable fighter in Anaheim, all of them are reproductions of fighters from the Cold War era on Earth......

This made Ian look moved and disagreeable......

When the "Classic Remaster" project was launched, Ian wanted to see a series of "monsters" developed by the world's poles during the Cold War that could be called doomsday fighters take to the skies again.

Of course, what's weird is ......

When the Tu-22 and B-1 bombers were in the same formation, there were F-12 interceptors and MiG-31 interceptors born from the SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft to escort them......

In other words, part of the purpose of the research and development of these two Mach 3 high-speed interceptors was to intercept the opponent's supersonic bombers......

Ian shook his head, suppressing the sense of absurdity.

"The effect?"

"So good that we have to re-evaluate these classic fighters from history." Linda shook her head with a wry smile. "At the same time, the large bomber of Endras, the VB-6E variable bomber, the variable MS demon angel carrying a large magazine, and the old attack support container and other airframes were also tested, and the bombing efficiency was far inferior to these antique ...... hundreds of years ago."

"The volume is there, and the design is different." Ian said that you don't dwell on this, those things can be counted as fighter-bombers or aircraft that can carry bombs, especially large flying-wing bombers like Endras, Ian feels that the efficiency of that bomber may not be as good as that of the Mi-24 gunship to hang aerial bombs.

Then Ian saw it......

MI-24PR

MI-28NR

MI-35MBR

Ka-52DR

AH-56R

AH-60AVR

AH-64DR

……

"Linda? Are you still testing helicopter gunships? ”

"Oh, that's a test request from Rita's troops, they don't have the heavy fire support to accompany them, they thought about MS at first, but eventually they chose to develop a gunship, and if you look down you can see the LAAT gunboat's armament upgrade plan. A rare large-scale ground battlefield, and it is a bit wasteful not to test weapons. ”

"You go on."

Linda nodded and hung up.

Ian watched the planes take off and land over there, watched a few more sorties, and then retracted his gaze to the holographic platform here.

"Misato?"

"Something."

"Has the Intelligence Department found the entrance to the shield world?"

"Not yet, the interference around the battlefield is too serious, and wide-area scanning is not very useful. Based on the CG of the game's cutscenes, we are searching the shoreline. ”

“…… God is special according to the game CG......"

"But we still haven't gained anything, and now, the UNSC's support ship has also reached a low altitude and is searching. Their troops also set up a forward base and fought with the Flood Demons, and the casualties were not light. ”

The holographic platform on Misato's left is showing the battle between the UNSC Fire Spirit and the Flood Demon next to a certain piece of the city's wreckage.

"Do they know the nature of the Flood?"

"Of course, the basic characteristics are just a matter of looking at them." Misato swiped twice on the tablet in her hand. "Now that you've been contacted, let's talk about it now, we've discovered the distribution pattern of these underground tunnel worms."

The information in Misato's hand was synchronized to the holographic platform in front of Ian.

It was a spatial structure within a few tens of meters below the surface of the shield world, as well as biological tissues that were intertwined from the crisscross, like roots.

This part of the tissue exhibits certain characteristics of silicon-based life, and the basic composition of the body has changed from carbon-based organic matter to a mixture of carbon-based organic matter, silicon-based compounds, and metals.

This part of the discovery made Ritsuko and Naoko ecstatic, and after their unprecedented outburst of enthusiasm, a pattern was discovered. Misato had a look of helplessness on her face. "All organizations should originate from this location."

Misato clicked on the slab, and a cube of space, almost fifteen kilometers square, was marked. It is two hundred kilometers below the surface.

"We deduce that the Brainbeast is here. But because of the structural problems of the shield world, we don't dare to easily use high-powered orbital bombardment to blow up the surface. ”

"Indeed, considering that none of the things made by the Precursors seem to be particularly sturdy, let's go the usual route. And there are so many things worth studying in this shield world, and it is very valuable to preserve here. I remember that there is usually a guided AI in the Precursor facility, has it been found? Wait......" Ian suddenly remembered something. "How's the exploration of the City of Fraternity?"

"Huh? Oh...... Well, I'll pick you up Dr. Lakshata. ”

“…… The exploration of the City of Fraternity has been completed, and we have discovered that the core of the City of Fraternity is the wreck of an ancient Precursor warship, which has been severely damaged by the Corpse Brain. The technology inside the city of fraternity is trying to recover. "A woman who looks like India appears on the screen.

"Yes, I remember that there was a Precursor AI on there, which seems to be called the Monk of Abomination......"

"Oh...... Well, we've found it, and the AI is called the Monk of Prejudice, and it's now assisting us with the Dreadnought...... Oh, the Dreadnought is the Precursor battleship...... Exploratory work on the ship. ”

"Hello, I'm the Monk of Prejudice, an artificial intelligence created by the forerunners of the Great Race, and it's a pleasure to meet you."