Chapter 23: New Threats (3)
The forerunner of this world, the glorious era before the end of its civilization. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Info has left behind a large number of man-made objects in the vast galaxy.
For example, twelve powerful auras, giant arks located outside the galaxy. Shield worlds within different star fields, and a series of buildings that can become miracles. These are the most intuitive embodiment of the forerunner civilization and strong power.
Among this series of buildings, Requiem is undoubtedly the most special existence. Because that place is the only shield world that is still in continuous operation after the aura was activated by the Precursors.
In this shield world, there is a large number of Prometheus mechanical warbands working on defense. And their mission is to protect the missionaries of the top leaders of the Precursor warrior class who are sleeping here.
The missionary was the commander-in-chief of the Forerunner armed forces, and it was the missionary himself who led the army to defeat the ancient human empire. However, due to political reasons, the Precursor general was imprisoned in Requiem and fell asleep.
Although Xiahou Lin clearly knew the location of Requiem, he never hit the main one there. The reason why this is the case is because of the Promethean legion and missionaries there.
If entering Requiem and unleashing that dangerous Precursor general, it will definitely not do any good for the current galaxy.
Historically, missionaries have been preparing to exterminate the only descendant of ancient humans who can compete with the Precursors for supremacy, and if we talk about this guy now, release it. At present, Xiahou Lin is not sure of dealing with this enemy.
Therefore, Xiahou Lin immediately said in a serious tone for Qiu Yue's proposal: "I don't recommend going to Requiem, there are too many uncertain factors in that shield world. Especially the existence of missionaries, the Prometheus warband inside, it is not so easy to deal with. ā
"Then we'll exclude Requiem from the search." Qiu Yue said with a smile, but then she said, "Judging from the current battle situation, the Star Alliance will not let the human race continue to counterattack. If the other party uses the City of Fraternity, then the human fleet will definitely not be able to compete. That's why Laxis suggests that you can help humanity in secret. ā
"Well, I'll take note of that. However, you should also note that the Covenant is looking for the remains of the Precursors everywhere, and if they discover the shield world, then they must destroy these guys as soon as possible. Xiahou Lin reminded Qiuyue Dao, because the Precursor Ruins have an unimaginable attraction to the Star Alliance.
If the Covenant discovers that the Precursor base is occupied by other forces, then a fierce battle is inevitable. Compared to the Star Alliance, which has a huge legion, the strength of some of Xiahou Lin's people is simply insignificant. Even if they now master the Precursor Dreadnought, they can't compete with the Star Alliance.
Because the Precursor Dreadnought Fleet is one of the tasks required by space, if it suffers large-scale losses in battle, it will not be able to explain like cube space at all, and Xiahou Lin is not willing to accept the punishment of space.
"We know this, there are currently no Covenant exploration ships found near the shield world. Okay, let's not talk about that, this is the latest Precursor relic we've discovered, come and take a look, I'm sure you'll be interested. Qiu Yue smiled and turned on a holographic image over and over again, and suddenly a picture of a precursor building appeared in front of Xia Houlin's eyes.
On another planet at the same time, with the high-level elite who led the team, after scarred and desperately slashed down a flood demon with the energy sword in his hand, he finally fell to the ground with exhaustion, and was quickly parasitized by the flood demon larvae.
At this time, hundreds of thousands of years later, the flood demons that once ravaged the galaxy finally came out of the planet where the Precursor ruins were located and quietly stepped onto the stage of history.
ā¦.
In the year 2545 of the Earth calendar, the battle between the Covenant and humans continues. Although the military technology of mankind has continued to improve over the years, it has not been able to defeat powerful opponents.
The Covenant began to invest more and more armed forces, launching a multi-pronged offensive against the range of the star field controlled by humans.
Humanity, which was already inferior in terms of the armament and numbers of warships, faced an enemy with absolute superiority in strength, and any of them fought valiantly.
However, the distant colonies still fell one after another, and the areas that were originally recaptured in several counteroffensives also fell into the hands of the Star Alliance again.
Although many of humanity's far-reaching colonies continued to fall, a large number of citizens managed to escape the Covenant's devastating plasma bombardment of the planet.
According to survivors' reports, these colonies receive a mysterious emergency notification approximately two hours before they are attacked by the Covenant. So that the humans on the planet can get a short time to prepare.
Except for the first two colonies, which were wiped out by the Covenant army because they ignored the mysterious information. Other colonies that received the report often began evacuating civilians as soon as they could.
As a result, despite the continuous fall of the Far Colonies, the civilian casualties were far less than they were in the early days of the war between humans and the Covenant.
Although both humans and the Covenant tried to find the mysterious source of the signal, to no avail. Eventually, both sides abandoned this and continued to fight fiercely.
The year 2545 was reached, and a scarred Covenant warship suddenly appeared in the sky over a human colony far away.
After the appearance of this battleship, it did not launch plasma bombing on the city at the first time, but slowly landed in the direction of the city
The garrison, having learned of this, immediately sent five warships to surround the Covenant warship, preparing to capture it completely.
But as the Covenant ship flew over the city, a large number of spore-like objects were scattered from above the ship to the bottom.
Eventually, the Covenant ship landed on the outskirts of the city, and the human ground forces immediately surrounded the ship and sent marines to force their way inside.
But what happened next took the human forces by surprise. Because when they entered the Covenant battleship again, they only saw a large number of Covenant soldiers who had been parasitized.
At this point, the most dangerous creature in the galaxy, the flood demon who once forced the forerunners to withdraw from the stage of history, finally began to appear in people's field of vision on a large scale for the first time.
Faced with the flood of demons pouring out of the battleship, the human soldiers naturally annihilated them as a threat. However, when the Marines attacked the flood demons at the scene of the battleship, a crisis broke out in the city at this time.
The spores that had been thrown from the battleship before were parasitized on a large scale with unbridled vibes, sending them to the crowd of curious people. Then, in the middle of the city, the flood demons began to erupt suddenly.
Apparently the colonial government had no experience in dealing with such a situation, so it immediately sent troops to begin evacuating the inhabitants while fighting fiercely with the Flood demons. And what happened here was also spread out as soon as possible.
After a day of fierce fighting, the number of the Flood Demon army was still growing explosively. In order to prevent more citizens from being killed, the colonial government had to issue evacuation orders.
As a result, under the best efforts of the army, most of the surviving civilians in the colonies boarded transport ships and began to evacuate to the other colonies.
By the time the human reinforcement fleet arrived at the colony, the situation was completely out of control. The ground is full of floods, and those who parasitize soldiers have also activated the planet's defense system and launched an attack on the fleet above orbit.
Xiahoulin, who was secretly monitoring the progress of the war between the Star Alliance and humans, immediately rushed to the colony after learning this information.
But when Xiahoulin arrived there and learned that most of the survivors of the city residents who had been attacked by the flood demons had fled to other planets in spaceships, he understood that the situation was now out of control.
Sure enough, three days later, a flood attack broke out in many of the nearby colonies that had accepted refugees. Even in a human fleet, there are also flood demons.
Soon the news of the appearance of the Flood Demon also came from the Star Alliance, and many planets of the Star Alliance were invaded by a large number of such creatures.
For a while, the originally warring Star Alliance and the human race, when facing the same opponent, had to temporarily choose to join forces to deal with the terrifying enemy of the Flood Demons.
Seeing this scene, Xia Houlin immediately rushed to the strength of the butterfly effect. I didn't expect the flood demon to appear early, and the momentum of the outbreak was even more ferocious than the original history.
"It seems that the plan is about to change, and we are afraid that we will have to face the flood demon army directly." While thinking about this question, Xia Houlin immediately ordered the battleship to go to the Precursor maintenance base with all its might.