Chapter 368: Three Years - Attack Shepard
"Three races in the council, many remote colonies have been attacked by unknowns, and the Star Federation may become the biggest winner"
A sensational headline hangs at the top of the news network, but if you click on it, it's just a succession of new colonies on the fringes of the three major races - but it's actually only one Ashali's colony that has actually been attacked and the colony's population has disappeared.
The main god "Catalyst" threw the electronic board on the table with some disdain, at this moment, he actually felt that he agreed with Lu Yuan's opinion, and the unhappiness in his heart was much calmer. You know, two weeks before this news appeared, there were already three outlying human colonies that had similar problems one after another, and the entire population was looted!
But what did the news media do in the Citadel at that time? It's as if it's a trifl of an uncivilized race that happened in the wilderness, and even a small tofu lump text message is stingy to give! As if nothing like this had ever happened...... When the same thing appeared on Asari, it immediately made headlines! By the way, I also piggyback on the irony of Starlink......
Such distinctions have always been so unveiled that both the parliament and the inhabitants are accustomed to it.
The Dawn side is familiar with the plot, and the "catalyst" is simply a world built according to the plot, and both sides of course know what is going to happen next.
To put it simply, the Mass Effect trilogy divides the entire plot into three phases - signs, gestation and outbreak.
Omen is the plot of the first Mass Effect world, tracking down Saren through Shepard. Gradually reveal the secrets behind the world of Prosian, Reaper, Harvest, Reincarnation, and Enlightenment, which have lasted for 50 million years. It ends with the Battle of the Citadel, where Shepard temporarily stops the Reaper's return.
The second plot is mainly brewing. This one is about the preparations for the Reaper's invasion. The main thing is that the Reapers, the subordinate race "Gatherers", plunder the creatures of the best current civilization in the galaxy, and then build the "Overlord"-class Reaper warships that belong to this cycle. By the way, the main base of the Gatherer is located on the edge of the Silver Heart, and access is also based on the Omega 4 repeater......
Shepard was resurrected by Cerberus and continued to fight against the Reapers. With the help of Cerberus, he farms the galaxy with prestige while fighting the Reaper's subordinate race, the Gatherers. Finally through a one-time nine-death action. Walk through the Omega 4 repeater and board and destroy the Gatherer's base and the Overlord that is being built.
The third part, of course, is the official invasion of the Reapers, and the outbreak of the Great War......
Then in terms of time. It should be in the early stages of the second episode, and the Gatherers have begun to quietly plunder the human inhabitants and prepare to build the first Overlord-class warship - but now both Catalyst and Lu Yuan understand that this is just a formality......
Because Lu Yuan has already created Hades. From then on, the soul of the creature after death has a home. It is no longer possible to collect them as materials for building warships - this makes the method of "catalyst" for building warships completely meaningless. Therefore, the "Overlord" battleship that is ready to start construction at the "Gatherer" base is completely different from the original plot in meaning, and it is completely the same! Even if Shepard doesn't blow it up, that thing won't become a reaper!
But in order to initialize the world, the plot still has to go...... "catalyst" originally thought that as an opponent he recognized and treated equally, Lu Yuan should be the same as him. It's just that there is a lack of interest in this. The catalyst was ready to leave the piece behind for the reaper to toss it himself. He was going to take a sabbatical for a while. Wait until the outbreak of the big war to continue to pay attention, but Lu Yuan doesn't seem to stop!
The first "Gatherer" cruiser had just attacked a Star Union colony, plundering about four hundred humans. Just as he passed through the Omega 4 repeater, he was directly pinched to death by a black hand......
After the catalyst learned the news, his nose was crooked - he didn't understand, it was obviously an inconsequential matter, why did Lu Yuan jump out and make trouble! Could it be that if he breaks up in two shots, he will be happy?! However, because of this, the catalyst knew that Lu Yuan and the others were hiding in the silver heart. But the center of the galaxy is so big, where can he find it?
Then there was the second newly built cruiser, which was also beautiful when it went out, and then as soon as it returned to the sea, it was pinched to death / cleanly!
The third ship...... After the third ship was treated the same, Catalyst had to frustratefully inform the Herald (the Gatherer project was also controlled by a Harbinger) to put the project on hold for the time being.
Catalyst knows that after defeating a grand fleet of 24,000 Reapers, the Dawn has become as invincible as the god of war! An ordinary reaper sub-race, the "gatherer" can't even leave the residue in the face of this beast...... If Lu Yuan wanted to pinch the "gatherer" to death, he didn't need to spend so much effort at all...... Lu Yuan should have wanted to pass on some news to the catalyst......
"What is it?" Catalyst thought for a long time before he suddenly recalled, "He seems to have told me that you are not allowed to target humans?" Seems to be human too! This kind of simple and obvious truth, but the main god catalyst has to turn his brain for a long time to really figure it out!
Really...... When he ordered the "Gatherers" to transfer the target from humans to other aliens, Lu Yuan disappeared again.
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The body of the big boss behind the scenes, "Phantom Man", was "cured" by Lu Yuan, but after being "cured", there were signs of "indoctrination" again, obviously because he had come into contact with the items left by the Reaper after that - people will not die if they do not die, and the power of "indoctrination" is far from being so easy to resist. If you feel that you have overcome "indoctrination", it must be a delusion, and it means that you have been "indoctrinated......
It is not a kind of corrosion, it is not that if you are strong-willed and clear-headed, you will definitely be able to defeat "indoctrination". Generally speaking, "education" is more like a temptation, when scientific researchers are educated, they will find that they have been unable to overcome the problem for a long time and suddenly have new ideas; And people like Phantom People are indoctrinated precisely because they can't find the light of day in a desperate situation, and then they are deceived by the sudden appearance of the "false dawn......
The more those who stand up to the sky, have lofty aspirations, vow to save the world, and love their neighbor more than themselves, the easier it is to be "edified"; On the contrary, they are mediocre people in the market, lacking neither the value nor the method of education...... They have no position or obsession, and the flies and dogs are mixed with red dust, but the reapers have no way to start.
Lu Yuan's concept is that "even if it is an aunt's towel, it has its purpose". Therefore, as long as Cerberus has not taken the initiative to rebel, he will definitely make a fool of himself with Cerberus, and lay countless traps by the way. If Cyblas doesn't betray, he will find a way to get Cerberus to act according to his baton and squeeze out the use value; If Cerberus dares to betray, then Lu Yuan will immediately teach him how to behave - what is "take mine and give it back to me, and spit it out if you eat mine"......
But Zhao Min is different from Lu Yuan, she doesn't like that "ambiguous" state. Therefore, when Zhao Min took control of the situation, she chose to cut off the half-hearted Cerberus directly! This triggered a series of strong backlashes from Cerberus, which in turn kicked several pits set up by Lu Yuan.
Cerberus was faced with a full-scale siege and was beaten to the brink of organizational collapse - so much so that the Phantom Man had to regain his grip.
Like he himself always thought ...... Or rather, as "Catalyst" made him think, the Phantom Man always believed that Shepard was the key to defeating the Reaper! It is the savior who saves the galaxy and the earth! Like Morpheus in the Matrix, he never thought his side could defeat the army of mechanical squid/reapers, so he pinned all of humanity's hopes on the savior Neo/Shepard......
And Lu Yuan has been based on strengthening the overall strength of the galactic civilization from the very beginning, and will fight the invading Reaper fleet head-on! He never pinned his hopes on the last few buttons of Shepard, or on Shepard's own moral level, which was actually the most fundamental disagreement between the Dawn and the Dog.
When the Dawn vanished, the Phantom Man recovered Shepard's mutilated body after the attack. Then he launched the secret plan "Lazarus", and even when Cerberus's funds were already stretched, it still cost 4 billion star dollars and two years to resurrect Shepard!
Then he rebuilt a state-of-the-art "Normandy" SR2 battleship for Sister Xue, and handed over a batch of high-level combat power such as Miranda to Shepard, and even equipped the battleship with artificial intelligence-EDI ......
We all know that with Sister Xue's chaotic and kind character, in the face of an orderly and evil organization like Cerberus, sooner or later they will part ways! At that time, Sister Xue will drive his boat and use others to kick a dog-plugged laboratory in the east and a secret base with a dog-plugged dog in the west. And all of this, the "phantom man" can only knock out his teeth and swallow it, and end up laughing......
It's a heartwarming story.
However, not long after Sister Xue got up from the bed in the laboratory recently, everything had to be reorganized. But the most crucial problem is that she is registered as "a dead man" in the Star Alliance and the Citadel Council...... That's probably the first thing she's trying to solve.
Also, after the Normandy was attacked and crashed, Shepard ended up missing in order to save Joker, but most of his team survived. Get in the way of Pear, Liara, Lex, Garas...... She now needs to reassemble a group of friends and accompany her to her death. (To be continued......)