Gordon. Freeman looked at the young man in front of him with a surprised gaze, and in his mind, Vladimir belonged to the kind of person who was indifferent to anything but his own ends, as could be seen from the fact that he had just ignored the human survivors. However, in the face of this indifferent young man who appeared in front of him quietly and was unaware of the others, including himself, he actually gave undue attention, and he looked like an old friend.

"Makarov, my friend, this is not the place for you." Ike lightly pointed the pistol at Makarov's head and swept it over the heavily armed man in front of him with an expressionless face.

The group of armed men with guns in their hands suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of danger, as if they were being targeted by an alien beast, and this creepy feeling was ten times that of the sickle monster.

Makarov: "Take it easy, guys, this is a friend. ”

"Long time no see, Yuri."

"Long time no see, Dragonov, take me to say hello to Mason." A ...... appeared inside the militants Bareheaded! Yuri sighed with some regret, "At the beginning, he almost completely infiltrated the Nightwish mercenary group, but unfortunately he encountered an accident before he was about to take control of it, and after Night Wish, he almost collapsed. ”

"It's a tragedy. Makarov, it seems that this is your fleet, what the hell is the need for you to go out in person! ”

"I don't have a choice, 'it' is the key, Ike." Makarov kept his finger on the screen as he watched the movements displayed on the pilot's plane. The information and images shown above happened to be the previous Ceph mutant, and he said to Ike rather calmly. "In fact, this is the first time I've seen this alien race."

"Your purpose. Makarov. Despite the fact that the plane was constantly swaying left and right due to cold energy interference during the journey, Ike still stood on the ground, "Where did the news come from?" ”

"Alien technology, my friend." Makarov paused and pointed to his left, "And, this one of ours...... Expert in theoretical physics. ”

Ike couldn't help but look at it, it was a new face with a hoop beard. Unlike the mercenaries around him, who were also new faces, he even wore a pair of glasses. Flat glasses, of course - myopia can be completely cured as early as the 21st century, and wearing these eyes gives people the feeling of an advanced scholar.

In addition to this, he was wearing blue armor that did not fit in with the people around him, and in the center of the armor was a small orange area, where the word "enter" was prominently placed.

"Gordon. Freeman, it's a pleasure to meet you, sir. The other side held out his hand expressionlessly.

"Ike." Ike shook his hand and nodded, "Makarov actually appointed an American. It seems that you can be trusted. ”

"That's nature, our goals are the same, and that alone determines that there will be no betrayal." Everyone around looked at Gordon in amazement. Freeman, because in their impressions. This Yankee never seemed to speak.

"Now is not the time to say that." Makarov said in the same nonchalant tone as Ike, "Get that mutant first, I need this thing." ”

"Then hurry. I'll help you. ”

After a brief conversation, Ike and Makarov stood side by side. He didn't speak, obviously the two core figures in the team.

Aircraft continued to fly inside the wrecked Ceph battleship. Due to the influence of the cold energy domain field, it had to move forward slowly, and even the speed of sound was not exceeded.

"Detecting...... The spacecraft uses Element E as a coating and energy shield, and as a result, the effects of cold energy 'waters' are severely weakened. Ike stood calmly beside Makarov, but the voice of "Saiko" sounded in his head, "It is recommended that the host collect more E elements to resist the erosion of high-power cold energy that the nanosuit cannot resist for the time being." ”

"E-element!" Ike felt as if he had caught something, but he didn't know very well, so he asked "Saiko", "Is there such an element in the places you've already been?" ”

"Stirant Star."

"It turned out to be there." Ike immediately understood that it was the Borderland where he and Zhen Wuyu had gone to sell arms, "Is it that kind of purple crystal?" ”

An image immediately conjured up in his mind: Lilith had taken a small piece of it from her pocket as if nothing had happened, nibbled on it, and chewed it as if she were eating dirt. There was a helpless expression on the faces of Blake and the others.

"This is the E-element?!" Ike frowned slightly, as far as he could see and feel at the time, there didn't seem to be anything special about this element. So he shared the images from that memory with "Saiko" for her to analyze.

"This is a low concentration of E element crystal slag, which contains low energy and is not easy to detect." "Saiko" gave the reason at the right time, which also explained why Lilith ate the E-element block directly, but nothing happened. Of course, even if it is a low-concentration E element crystal slag, only a witch dares to do this, and if it were someone else, it would have been assimilated and eroded by the E element a long time ago.

Element E, a newly discovered element by Ike from Makarov, is also a new element that has not yet been unlocked by "Saiko", which should have strong energy and erosion, as well as resist cold energy. Makarov understood this and applied it to the protection of aircraft against intrusion in the waters.

From the limited analysis given by "Saiko", it is likely that there is a large amount of precious E element stored on the star Stirrantia, which is worth exploring.

[Looks like I'll have to go there again.] Ike thought silently, "I don't know how the war between humans and Ceph is going on. 】

With the discovery of the E element, another key to cold energy, and the addition of nano-biochemical disguises, he may be able to find a way to deal with this race.

Just as Ike was thinking, the plane suddenly shook violently, and the surroundings began to shake. However, all the personnel present were well-trained and stabilized their bodies in time.

"It looks like we've had an enemy." Makarov asked the driver, who was still in a calm state, to bring up the image outside. Two huge spaceship-like creatures stood in front of them, spider-like slender legs supporting the ground, and crimson lasers continued to shoot out from the metallic tissue between their necks, hitting the surface of the plane repeatedly.

It's a field type Ceph! This giant Ceph creature constantly emits cold energy lasers, and the light and rain are so dense and powerful that the aircraft cannot dodge them. The continuous attacks caused the E element layer to be quickly reduced by the low purity, and if it continued like this, the plane would be penetrated. (To be continued.) )