Chapter 305: Prelude I
The huge blue planet occupies most of the field of vision under your feet. The atmosphere enveloped by the planet Vomel now emits a faint glow under the light of the stars, like a halo around the planet.
The image of the nuclear bomb skyrocketing is like the slow motion of a silent movie.
First, under the halo of the atmosphere, a brighter point of light appeared. The point of light then begins to expand in a circular shape along the curved surface of the planet until it hits the top of the atmosphere, when it begins to diffuse around......
This was Anne's former cabin, and now Shepard stood quietly in front of the porthole, staring at the explosion on the planet, the bright light shining on her face pale. The Normandy then accelerated out of the planet's orbit, leaving the explosion of the nuclear bomb far behind.
Shepard closed his eyes and lowered his head, resting his head against the porthole, and in an instant, endless memories of Annie flooded back to his heart! Little by little, the tears fell.
"Shepard ......", the door of the room is pushed open, allowing bright light to shine into the dimly lit cabin. Liara the Asari stood in the doorway, watching Shepard's back hiding in the darkness, calling Shepard worriedly.
"I'm sorry," she heard Shepard's calm reply, her voice devoid of the enthusiasm of the past, only a hint of sorrow that sounded dead on her heart. "Please leave me alone for a while......"
Liara stood in frustration for a moment, then finally closed the door and left.
In the dark, Shepard turned on the multi-tool. She hesitated for a long time, and after several deletions, she told Li Huamei the news of Anne. After all, the three of them used to be best friends. She didn't want Li Huamei to learn from the war report that Anne had died...... However, Li Huamei's reply was only a cold and resolute word, "Got it." In an instant, it pierced Shepard's steel shell again......
She just stayed in Anne's cabin. It wasn't until late in the evening that he pushed the door open and walked out.
At this moment, Shepard had already sorted out his appearance, and his appearance seemed to have recovered. Her eyes were still sharp, and a smile was on her lips...... Only those who really understand her, when they look at Sister Xue at this moment, will they feel an inexplicable chill in their hearts!
"Joker," Shepard said into the microphone. "Seal Anne's cabin, and henceforth no one will be allowed to enter...... This is the order of the highest rank. ”
And that's not all. Shepard's hand was still pressed against the door of the cabin. After a few seconds, the entire hatch was heated to an extremely high temperature by the ability, and even began to emit a dark red, hot glow! The edge of the half-melted hatch bonds the gap between the alloy wall and the hatch. After her hand left the hatch. The cooled metal solution solidifies the door and the wall completely.
"Yes. Commander. Joker replied. There's also bad news, Shepard. The councillors are waiting for you in the communications room...... They want you to explain your actions of detonating a nuclear bomb in the Realm of the Gods. It is said that those bastards in the Realm of the Gods are now ready to move, and the politicians of the Divine Citadel believe that you are the one who leads the current tense situation, and their order to the Normandy is to return to the Divine Citadel as quickly as possible...... Are we going to obey? ”
"Hehe~" Shepard smiled, unhurriedly rolled up his cuffs, and fixed an alloy wrist blade to his left forearm. If there were members of the Normandy Marines, they would have recognized it, it was a weapon that Anne usually used. Not sure why. This time, Anne attacked in full armor, but she kept the wrist blade behind.
"Click!" Shepard tried to shake his left fist. A sharp dark golden blade bounced out of the outside of the wrist! No one knew that this was the edge of the pure gold alloy, truly indestructible and sharpened like clay. Shepard withdrew the blade, then lowered his sleeve to cover the metal wrist.
"I'm not going to the communications room, please tell the distinguished councillors on my behalf......" Shepard smiled into the microphone and commanded, "Let them die!" ”
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In the sky, there were a large number of dark clouds from the exploding and evaporating ocean, which were heavily obscured from all sunlight. The occasional drizzle of rain with a radiant content can kill all living things lightly.
The desolate land is full of ruins and ruins! If you look closely, you will find that what looks like construction waste is not actually a material like masonry and concrete, but broken metal! All of them are high-strength alloys! Moreover, the surface of these metals can be visibly discerned by the naked eye that they have been semi-melted and then condensed again.
In the center of the ruins is a large pit that sinks downward. It is only a few tens of meters deep, and it looks as if it has been pressed down from the surface, and the shape of the circular pit is very regular. And around the crater, the wreckage is clearly distributed in a radial pattern.
A massive egg-shaped battleship broke through the clouds and landed towards the ruins. Unlike ordinary spaceships, this massive battleship, comparable to a cruiser, did not trigger the usual horrors such as electrostatic emissions, effect field air explosions, or even tornadoes when it landed.
The massive battleship hovered above the ruins, circled with a dexterity she could not have had, and then came to rest on top of a ruin. As the hatch opened, countless giant metal spiders poured out of that battleship! The spiders swooped down on the ruins, and the metal ruins collapsed and began to fall at a speed visible to the naked eye.
When they found something, the thousands of metal spiders slammed apart, revealing the center of the ruins that had been broken down into another crater, and an egg-shaped white ball of light appeared.
The ball of light was almost completely transparent, and Anne was hovering naked/naked in the center of the ball with her eyes closed. Her lips pursed slightly, as if she was still sleeping sweetly. Milky white rays of light grew from the shoulder blades on both sides of her back, and then entangled and stretched to the left and right, forming two huge wings, firmly protecting her in the middle.
After confirming Anne's safety, the metal spiders burrowed under the ball of light one by one, and then crossed their wrists and feet, supporting each other like stacks of arhats, slowly lifting the ball of light and sending it into the hatch of the spaceship overhead.
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"Is it worth your hard work?" When Anne walked out of the repair warehouse, Lu Yuan was already holding a yukata in his hand, guarding him like a waiter.
Anne was really adventurous this time, she had a ring with "teleportation" that could leave the battlefield at any time, but she didn't use it. Instead, he chose to use the angel incarnation to carry the nuclear explosion! It really scared Lu Yuan. To know whether the angel incarnation can resist a close-range nuclear explosion, something that has never happened before, cannot be predicted and tested, who knows!
"Of course it's worth it!" Anne tugged at the yukata to cover her naked/naked body. "I must be sure that I will die on the battlefield without mistake, and I will stab Xiao Xue Xue in the heart a few times. Right now...... Let that little smash and cry! Oh ha~"
"Good fake...... Slope (Shepard) was already crying and fainting in the toilet," Lu Yuan looked at Anne, who was smiling as a queen, in a cold sweat, "This style is not suitable for you at all." ”
"And~" Anne rolled her eyes, relaxed her body and leaned against the wall opposite Lu Yuan, and finally said helplessly. "It's not all because of you! …… Messing up the front makes Shepard's mentality completely wrong! Without a blood feud, how can heroes explode? Let alone...... Don't you think that if you want to be a hero, you have to carry a little bit of something? ”
"That's right." Lu Yuan could only admit that Anne was right.
As the two of them talked about, Shepard is the only candidate for the "savior", but she has not yet entered the state.
Originally, witnessing the Eden Star colony destroyed by Saren should have been a good stimulus to Sister Xue's psychology - but Lu Yuan, who was very pitted, had been digging holes here for several years, and in one fell swoop, he had half crippled Salen, the Reaper and his tens of millions of geth brothers! Sister Xue and the others were beaten by Colonel McHalovich, and then they left in a gloomy manner, and the whole process was a bottle of soy sauce.
Then there is the political state of the Divine Castle. Originally, according to the original history, at this time, the Star Federation should be in a rather bad state in the Divine Fort - most of the races felt that the human race had risen too fast, gained too much, and encroached on their space, so it was quite unfriendly. Moreover, the Divine Citadel Council also felt that humans were out of control and too "anxious...... Shepard was despised everywhere in the Citadel, and the status of "ghost" was reluctantly obtained from the council.
But now, this situation has long been completely reversed with the joint efforts of Starlink, Lu Yuan and Cerberus!
The emergence of heroes such as Li Huamei and Shepard, as well as the vigorous publicity of these deeds, have effectively shaped a new image of mankind; The "Zhaomin Culture" and Lu Yuan's movies and TV series have swept the galaxy one after another, making human civilization widely recognized and becoming an important part of the pan-galaxy; Finally, and most importantly, the Starlink decommissioned and destroyed up to thirty old Starlink cruisers on a large scale! It highlights the great courage and the attitude of not fighting for hegemony, and completely reverses the unfavorable situation of Starlink in politics at once!
Therefore, this time Sister Xue was appointed as a "ghost", and she was happy to fulfill it in all aspects, so it was almost a matter of course......
When Lu Yuan did these things and plans, he never considered Sister Xue's feelings - he had always regarded Shepard as just an ordinary person, and he never really pinned the hope of humanity defeating the Reaper on her, especially when he knew that Sister Xue had a "system".
As a result, the situation has become more awkward now. Saren is about to lead the geth fleet to attack the Divine Citadel, and the first head-to-head confrontation is coming, but Sister Xue has not yet entered the state she should be-to put it bluntly, in fact, she is in a state of sacrifice regardless of Qiē...... Sister Xue, who has the aura of the protagonist, will not die the more she dies, and she will have great achievements and great achievements.
So, Anne was right.
The death of his companions in the attack on the Vormel base was the third and final chance for Shepard to mature. A serious illness still requires a strong doctor, and Anne filled it in without a mistake. (To be continued......)