Admiral Hood was not joking, and immediately after completing his meeting with Master Chief, he began to make preparations for the operation. It took less than a morning to mobilize an almost brand new battleship, a carefully selected captain, and deploy a supporting crew and a few Spartan warriors!

ONI protested against Admiral Hood's "ultra vires" transfer, but it did not have any effect. Due to the discovery of the ring belt, it was finally confirmed that humans are the heirs of the Precursors, and the previous long-standing policy of ONI's policy of blocking information about ancient civilizations proved to be completely unnecessary and hindered the progress of the battle array.

If it weren't for ONI's long-term blockade, UNSC might have studied the discovered Precursor relics on a large scale and inherited a large amount of technology, instead of being hit by a large number of Covenants of Forerunner technology like today.

Due to the defeat in the Battle of Zhiyuanxing, there is now a fierce power struggle within the UNSC, and in this fierce internal tear, the disgraceful ONI was squeezed out of the power struggle and lost most of its real power.

The current fleet command has temporarily taken over the management of all remaining Spartan warriors, while other departments are vying for control of ONI's other projects. Although the ONI department still exists and there is still the possibility of a comeback in the future, at least for now, they have been kicked out of the chain of command by other government departments.

At present, the name of the battleship that was transferred by Admiral Hood to carry out a top-secret mission is the Amber, and the captain of the ship is named Miranda. Keith was none other than the captain of the Autumnwind Ton, Jacob Brown. Keys daughter. Although the details of the mission are still being worked out, Amber is already making intense preparations for the departure of the busy combat space station.

A large number of weapons and ammunition, equipment spare parts, medical and daily necessities are being loaded and unloaded intensively. Not to mention the complexity of staffing. Admiral Hood's order was clear, he demanded that the Amber complete the integration of personnel within a day and make all combat readiness.

It's an extremely difficult thing to do. Because although the previous Amber did not participate in the space battle of Zhiyuan, it has been a few months since the last stoppage. Ideally, the Amber should undergo a two-week ship-wide inspection and recuperation to get back to its best.

However, the recent difficult situation has made this wish unattainable. At this time, in order to meet the demanding schedule, the young Captain Miranda is urging his crew to work overtime. The technical officers of the bridge have been distributed in all corners of the ship to arrange system inspections and rationing. The marine engineering department is already busy.

Even as the captain of the ship, she was busy running around the ship to ensure that every batch of new supplies and personnel arrived on time. Although the Amber had not been on combat duty for several months and did not need to be replenished, Admiral Hood had a lot of additional personnel assigned to her various departments.

Almost all of the Amber's Marines were replaced by ODST veterans transferred from other units. Even the Marine Corps commander, who was most important to her as a captain, to assert her authority, was replaced. Although she has not yet received a clear mission goal, Miranda, the newly promoted captain, has already seen the problem in these unusual transfers.

At first, she thought she was either going to be removed from her post or to be assigned some important escort duty. However, she soon discovers that a group of Spartan warriors has appeared in the latest personnel list. At least 4 Spartan warriors will go on some top-secret mission on his battleship!

The presence of Spartan warriors illustrates the importance of the operation. More importantly for Miranda, the Master Chief on the list may be able to tell her about her father's whereabouts and safety. She knew that Master Chief had boarded the Autumnwind Tun before.

Right now. Master Chief returned to Earth safe and sound, but his father was still "missing". Information about the discovery of the ring belt and other "missing persons" was classified at this time. UNSC executives are still debating nervously about how to deal with the space-time expedition and whether to make public the many discoveries in the ring.

Master Chief, only a small percentage of people have seen their comprehensive report so far, so for a mid-level officer like Mirada, she doesn't have the normal channels to learn about what happened to the Autumnwind and his father's latest information.

"Hey, you, notify me as soon as Master Chief arrives! Captain Miranda commanded a strange newly deployed technical officer. After the other party confirmed her order, Captain Miranda went on to attend to the ship's affairs.

She doesn't know yet. The technical officer, whom she casually called, was actually an undercover member of an expedition team that had been carefully assigned to her ship, and he and another teammate were tasked with lurking on the Amber. Send the latest location information of the Amber to the Pegasos in real time, so that the Spacetime Fleet can track the battleship that has run a lot in the plot, so that they will not miss the "important plot".

Of course, this mission is a bit outdated, and the plot has changed a lot now, especially the part of the Master Chief that is the clue has changed a lot. The probability of many "original plots" has been greatly reduced. If it weren't for the fact that the Master Chief was going to land on this battleship, the members of this lurking expedition would probably have applied to return to the team.

At this moment, outside the space battle airport where the Amber docked, the Master Chief had just arrived here to join the Amber. He had spent the previous half of the day working out the details of the new mission and receiving his armor.

Admiral Hood seemed confident in re-engaging with the expedition, and he asked Master Chief to seek out and re-engage with the expedition as his representative. Although the Master Chief himself has repeatedly stated that he gave up halfway through his previous cooperation with the space-time expedition. He himself was not the best person to pass the word.

Eventually, however, Master Chief was persuaded by Admiral Hood to lead a group of Spartan warriors back to the Ring to try their luck. Because Admiral Hood said that he had no one more suitable for the task than him! And the success or failure of this mission will greatly affect the outcome of the upcoming battle to defend the earth.

In the airport, the Master Chief, who had already sorted out all the equipment, did not rush to board the ship, but waited for a while to receive the Cortana from the technicians who had arrived here to complete the latest upgrades. For an AI like Cortana, an upgrade doesn't mean a core modification like a software upgrade.

In contrast, the networking upgrade of AI is mainly to update the data database and improve the level of AI common sense. For an AI like Cortana, this upgrade is like an average person reading a few magazines, barely learning anything, and can only be used to accumulate "talking points".

After receiving Cortana, the Master Chief immediately inserted her carrying chip into the slot behind his helmet, and then a chill came from the back of his head, and he resumed his "brain sex" with Cortana. As the only Spartan warrior to be equipped with this neural interaction chip and have his own AI partner, Master Chief has become heavily reliant on Cortana.

In battle, Cortana helped him immensely, and when it came to many difficult decisions, Cortana was able to share the pressure with him. In the few moments when he didn't fight, he had become accustomed to Cortana's often embarrassing habit of talking, usually he only felt annoyed when Cortana chattered, but once they had been separated a little longer, he felt unaccustomed again.

That's why he hurriedly put Cortana's chip back in the back of his head after seeing him again, he had a lot of things he wanted to discuss with Cortana about the latest task they received, but what he didn't expect was that after resuming his brainfuck, Cortana didn't take the initiative to greet and "tease" him, and he didn't have the active appearance he usually had when he regained his brain.

"Cortana, what's going on?" Answer me. Master Chief asked with a sigh in his thoughts, he knew that Cortana was playing a tantrum, but he really didn't have much patience to play hide and seek in his head right now. He didn't know why Cortana had suddenly become so silent, but the new task was urgent, and they had to both recover to their best and cooperate effectively.

"I'm in..."Cortana replied weakly, which was regarded as a sign of her own storage, but she obviously did not explain why she was depressed, and immediately returned to her absent-minded state after brushing out her sense of storage.

Master Chief didn't know what was going on, he had never seen Cortana so uncooperative with him. In the past, no matter how difficult the situation was, Cortana was always on call to help him solve the problem, and he would not be as petty as he is now.

For this reason, he could only call in his mind over and over again, eager to have a good talk with Cortana about the latest mission. But Cortana was under much greater psychological pressure at this time than the Master Chief. She didn't fall in love for no reason.

Before being transferred back to the Master Chief, she searched the Internet through Guò, checked the latest mission information and all the issued personnel assignments in the command network, and prepared to discuss the mission with the Master Chief based on these information. At that time, Cortana was in a good mood and looking forward to another brain fight with the Master Chief.

However, while reviewing the personnel transfer information, Cortana stumbled upon a figure that surprised her when she found a list of Spartan warriors who had been deployed to the Amber. It is precisely because of this mysterious figure that she suddenly falls into a low love.

"John! Suddenly, a female voice came from not far behind the Master Chief, who was still flapping his helmet and was busy currying favor with Cortana, when he heard this familiar and unfamiliar female voice, he suddenly struck like lightning, he couldn't believe his ears, and stood for about half a second before turning his head to confirm his conjecture. (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the monthly ticket voted by "Lonely Guest, Wandering Prodigal Son, 21437612, openliu, Five-color Dawn, Remnant Sun Dragon Shadow", I have insomnia tonight, so I still put this chapter out in front of me.

As for the new female Spartan warrior who is about to appear, those who are familiar with the setting will be able to guess it. It is worth noting that about her, I have made some setting modifications, not only to take care of the later plot progression, but also to rationalize the character creation of the master officer. If it is completely according to the official setting, the "human-machine love" between the Master Chief and Cortana later belongs to the nature of an "extramarital affair".