Led by the survivor, they walked through a large area of colonial ruins, which were very badly damaged, with dense bullet holes and charred marks everywhere, and the corpses of many colonists could be seen all around.

Some of the corpses were completely carbonized, and it looked like they had been hit by the explosion of the plasma weapon at close range. Passing through the corpses, they came to the periphery of the Jace's circle of fire. In front of a building with almost no end in sight.

It's hard to understand how good the building power of this era is, it's a very limited colony, but because of the huge investment, the buildings here are also very tall. It has a great capacity for the population.

It looks like the companies that developed here want to grow on the planet for the long term. The 3,000-meter-tall 3,000-meter-tall 3 mega-towers reach into the sky, far larger than any building on the main plane.

The top of the building in the clouds is not visible at all. These buildings are much larger than the ones in the game. In contrast, the group was as tiny as a swarm of ants.

However, the tall, intricate structure of the buildings was a good thing for them and for the survivors here, as Jace was outnumbered, and thousands of Jace infantry were expected to land. But Jace was unable to exploit their numerical superiority in street fighting.

Before entering the building where the survivors gathered, they first scanned the entire building with the combat scanners on their guns.

According to the results of their battle scanners, there were 100 Jace infantry in the building. Some are clearly massing. Organized an attack on the gathering place of the survivors.

Seeing this, Shepard divided her Marines into three parts, preparing to fight off the Jaces so that they could smoothly connect with the survivors here. These people must not die until she gets the information she needs......

The others were organized into two fireteams, with Shepard and Lex in command, and Shen Chao in charge of clearing the least number of Jaces on the first floor.

This was because Shepard knew that his abilities were extraordinary, and in this kind of battle in a limited indoor space, Shen Chao's combat power was much stronger than everyone else in the team. It can be done on its own.

Shen Chao did not refuse. He had the least number of Jaces to clean up, with only a squad of 7 or 8 Jace, so there was no pressure. After confirming the tactical arrangement, they went their separate ways.

A few minutes later. Shen Chao slashed down the last Jace infantry in his line of sight on the floor he was in charge of. It's too simple, and although the combined firepower of this group of Jaces is much more powerful than him alone, the speed against him is still too weak.

Soon, good news came from the communicator, and in just a few minutes, their teams had wiped out nearly a hundred Jace infantry. After confirming the end of the battle, they assembled again. Now they don't have Jace in their way.

Under the guidance of their guides, they walked around the complex building for more than ten minutes, and finally found the leader here.

This is a middle-aged man with almost no features on his face. According to the workers who brought them, his former job was as an ordinary electrical engineer in the colony.

At this time. The last survivors gathered in a small square-like place, and it appeared that there were only about thirty survivors hiding in total. Although there may be some sporadic survivors in other parts of the colony. But that's what the main survivors are left.

One can imagine how hard they have been these days. After all, they are all civilians, and it is not easy to hold on until now. All of the survivors looked very tired, the one in charge of guarding the entrance was better, and the other survivors slept in twos and threes, even with their guns in their hands. …,

It should be caused by a long battle or no rest. After seeing Shepard's team, the few people who were awake didn't even have the strength to stand up and say hello. It looks extremely miserable.

This is not surprising, after all, they have killed nearly a hundred Jace infantry on the way they came. God knows how many Jaces are active throughout the colony. The situation of these survivors is already better than they had originally thought.

"Ah, there's finally support, I'm ......" After seeing them, this middle-aged man named Fontaine immediately introduced their situation, and they knew that the Star Alliance would eventually have ships to come to support. But none of the survivors were sure they would make it to that point.

Shepard took some time to ask the people here about Jace's purpose for his invasion. Eventually, they figured out Jace's main area of activity. According to the person in charge here, at least a hundred Jace infantry gathered in the headquarters building of the energy company. And they've been there for a couple of days.

As for what they're doing. These hapless survivors don't know. It doesn't look like these people know what their real job here is yet. It is not even known why they were attacked.

However, Shen Chao knew the purpose of Salen's coming here, on this planet, there was only one thing that would attract Salen's attention, and it was worth him sending so many Jace to rob him, and that was Thorion. Or Sorrian's memory.

The Sorian is a strange creature that is half animal, half plant, and lives only on the planet, this creature has both the roots of a plant and the nerves and digestive systems of animals.

Not so long ago, the company that developed this place discovered this amazing creature and conducted preliminary research on it. They kept it a secret, but Saren heard the news. So, there was this invasion.

The biological characteristics of the Sorian are very special, it can absorb solar energy to replenish nutrients like ordinary plants, grow slowly, and can also eat a large amount of supplementary nutrients through guò. Rapid growth. And the lifespan of this creature is almost infinite.

While those who know it don't have the means to classify it biologically accurately, one thing is for sure, Sorrion is wise.

According to the in-game table, although Sorian has two sets of energy acquisition methods, in order to support its huge size and rapid growth, Sorian has evolved the ability to hunt.

Unlike other known plants and animals, the Thorian cannot move itself, so it cannot hunt with strength and speed like an animal, it can only let its prey come to its door.

Here's where the interesting part is, since the Sorion isn't a pure plant, it hasn't evolved the pheromone-like hunting ability of some carnivorous plants.

Over the course of his long evolutionary career, Thorian has evolved a very unique psychic ability to generate a bizarre bio-energy field that is capable of influencing animals that are close enough to it.

At first, the effect will be very small, only able to hypnotize very small mouse-like animals, but if it is within the influence of Sorian for a long time, then those small animals will slowly be controlled by Sorian.

Some small local creatures, such as lizards and so on, will inhabit the vicinity of Sorian, and every once in a while, Sorian will successfully control a lizard to crawl to its mouth and willingly let it devour.

However, this is only part of Sorian's abilities, and as long enough to get close enough and for long enough, Sorian can even control the minds of higher beings like humans.

This is a very worthwhile ability to study, Shen Chao thought of sampling and studying Sorian when he was formulating Plan M. If they can figure out how Sorian's ability works, it will be of great help to their future crossing. …,

And that's not all. According to the introduction in the game, all the colonists who have been controlled by Sorian in a generation have gained natural immunity to the reaper's indoctrination as long as they do not die!

That's the most important point. This is also why Shen Chao pays so much attention to this creature. As we all know, the Reapers, in the world of Mass Effect, are powerful and almost invincible. At least hundreds of reincarnated galactic intelligent life has been harvested.

However, the technological progress of the Reaper itself has been slow. It stands to reason that in at least a million years from the birth of the Reaper to the present, there will always be a reincarnation civilization that has a technological explosion and then overturns all the Reapers.

But that never happened. Until this reincarnation......

The reason why the Reaper race has been able to successfully harvest one reincarnation after another of organic intelligent life is that they have the ability to educate organic intelligent life.

Indoctrination is a Reaper-specific technology, and simply put, any organic intelligent life form that has been exposed to a Reaper's item may be affected and eventually indoctrinated. Abandon your original position and end up as a slave and puppet of the Reaper.

In order to prevent himself and his expedition team from being educated by the Reapers during their expeditions in this plane, Shen Chao would collect as many techniques or materials as possible that could restrain the education.

That's why he's ready to collect samples, something so valuable naturally needs to be sampled, and when he returns, he can slowly accumulate technical strength and find a way to get humans out of the possibility of being indoctrinated. This is very important for his future development plans.

Thinking of this, Shen Chao looked to the side, at this time, Sister Xue had already finished talking with the survivor leaders here, and she had already got the information she needed to arrange her next move.

Shepard began to assemble the line. She was going to leave most of her team behind to assist the inhabitants in defending and find a way to move them to Normandy.

In the meantime, she could take a small team of Marines to investigate Jace's activities and find out what they were up to. Then decide what to do in the end. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )