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For a warship like the Autumnwind Town, the precondition for the implementation of the Cole Protocol is that the Covenant tries to seize the ship or the ship loses power and cannot escape. If the theory had been strictly followed, Captain Keith would have carried out this agreement when the last Covenant force landed.

Captain Keith didn't decide to abandon ship at the time because he felt that he still had hope of escaping with the crew and the ship, and even now, he still believes that if everyone is united, there is still life.

After the implementation of the Cole agreement, the Autumn Wind Atsune must wipe out all navigation and communication data on board with one click, and the AI Cortana, which holds all kinds of important navigation and confidential information, is naturally in the ranks of the scheduled clearance.

Of course, Captain Keith didn't order the destruction of Cortana's onboard chip, and as one of UNSC's most advanced AIs, it would be useful to save Cortana in the long and short term.

At the very least, Cortana, whose expertise is stealing Covenant materials, may be able to help the crew of the Autumnwind survive the Covenant's pursuit after a forced landing, as long as she survives.

"Cortana, you have to leave the ship too. Master Chief, your mission is to ensure that she is not captured by the enemy. Remember, if the Covenant captures her, we'll lose a single Qiē, fleet deployment, strategic plan, weapons development plan, and most importantly, Earth! ”

Captain Keith repeatedly emphasized the importance of Cortana, on the one hand, asking the Master Chief to do his best to preserve her existence, and on the other hand, reminding her that if she was surrounded by the Star Alliance, she would not be able to escape. Then you must be ruthless to destroy Cortana's chip.

As a captain, Captain Keith is undoubtedly worthy of respect, and at this critical moment of life and death, he left the best chance of survival to his crew, including Master Chief and Cortana. And he himself is ready to join the few remaining crew members to try to force land the Autumnwind Dun onto the mysterious ring belt in the distance.

After a brief explanation. Master Chief took Cortana's chip and stuck it in the back of his helmet. Through the neural links in the guò helmet, Cortana will be able to engage in high-speed direct "brain sex" with him, greatly enhancing his battlefield environment insight and their chances of survival as a combination.

"Well, your structure isn't that different from our Autumnwind Dun! After the NCGE's thinking was formed by the Guò nerve link, Cortana still didn't forget to make fun of it, she was not only talking about the NCGE's strong physique, but also describing the opponent's current tense combat nerves.

"Focus, Cortana. Don't come up with any more ideas now......" replied Master Chief, who was also connected to Cortana's mind through the guò neural link, in a somewhat helpless tone.

He's been working with Cortana for a while, and he's generally a big fan of Cortana, but so far, he's not quite used to Cortana's ideas and teasing that pop up from time to time in their shared minds.

Although it seems to be orderly, after all, the Master Chief is over 40 years old at this time, and even if the effects of long hibernation and other factors are taken into account, he is in his 30s. How could it be impossible not to perceive Cortana's "special affection" for him?

It's just that he can't maintain a sense of humor at all times like Cortana and face Cortana's "harassment". He could only choose persuasion, fortunately. Cortana doesn't seem to care about other people's feelings, but the key is that she is always willing to listen to him.

Of course, the "private conversation" between the two of them in the shared thinking space is not known to outsiders. After getting Cortana, the Master Chief also set off from the bridge and rushed all the way to the cabin of the flying vehicle, and easily eliminated all the Covenant landing forces that stood in their way.

In the cabin of the flying vehicle, he joined up with most of the remaining Marines and ODST soldiers on board. George: They also waited here with the captain who was still seriously injured. Carter, the leader of Noble's team, looked much better now and was able to walk, but he was still unable to move vigorously due to the large wound in his abdomen.

After assembling in the engine room, a large group of them were aboard several Pelican spacecraft. Quickly left the Autumn Wind Dun and sailed towards the ring belt that was already close at hand. At this time, the Covenant's fleet resumed its bombardment of the Autumnwind Atsune, as the second wave of landing force they sent was still unsuccessful and failed to capture the Autumnwind Atsune, which had already suffered heavy losses.

Two successive failed attempts to capture ships made the fleet commander on the Covenant's side very angry. He no longer tried to send men to capture the Autumnwind Town, but begged that human ships would not land on the "sacred" ring and defile their holy land.

The Covenant had discovered a ring a long time ago, and they had known for a long time that it was a relic of the Precursors, although for a long time other than a few members of the Prophet Clan, the other Covenant races did not know what the Ring was for, but like the relics left by other Precursors, the huge ring was worshipped by the Covenant as a miracle.

Although the Covenant also knew that the ring was full of dangers, for example, they knew that there should also be Zerg on the ring that they had just discovered not long ago (the Covenant's name for the Flood Demons who were still very primitive at this stage), they were still unwilling to let their seemingly "dirty" humans defile the sacred land of their creators.

And outside the battlefield in the distance, a burst of white light flashed, and the Pegasus also arrived in a hurry, just in time to meet the plot here according to the plan. Due to the fact that the jump coordinates were set far away from the location where the Autumn Wind had completed the fault jump before, several astronomical units away, and because the Pegasos also had better concealment techniques, their sudden arrival was not detected by the two sides who were fighting fiercely in the distance.

: "Multiple anomalies have been detected and optical characterization is underway... Confirm that one of them is HALO! "With this report from the navigation team, a blurry image with large pixels suddenly appeared on the panorama. Although it is still difficult to determine with the naked eye that this vague figure shows a ring, the gravitational number of the target is as expected.

"Communicator, continue to monitor all channels, driver, take us slowly!" "Stand on the podium. Custer, who was acting as captain, shook the metal flask in his hand and ordered. The reason why Shen Chao didn't give the same order here was because he was already preparing for the landing with the first brigade in Airport No. 2.

Shen Chao didn't have any doubts that he could find HALO smoothly along the plot, in contrast, he was more concerned about the details of the landing after finding the ring. He had taken the people to prepare for the landing so early in order to make all the preparations and avoid Alice.

In the previous few days, he had also spent some time guessing several reasons for Alice's drastic change in temperament, the most likely of which was that she was pregnant. This conjecture is unfounded. It's just based on a feeling. However, he still rationalized a lot of Alice's previous "overreflections" based on this conjecture, and accordingly excluded Alice from the subsequent dangerous Cheng dù Gao tasks as much as possible.

At this time, nearly 100 members of the first brigade were preparing for their journey in the airport, and dozens of shuttles were lined up in three columns, each column was more than a dozen rows long. Each of their teams is accompanied by at least two volunteers from the UNSC military, in response to a possible security monitoring mechanism within the belt.

Shen Chao was in front of his shuttle to his guide, Noble6, to introduce information about the ring belt, a task that took him a few minutes, and at the same time, the rest of the narrator was not idle. They have arranged their own departure lineups, and they have entered the shuttle in small teams one by one.

However, just as he was about to lead the team away, Alice, who was aware of the hidden personnel transfer, still came over. Seeing that Shen Chao was about to go to the dangerous ring belt without taking her, she was a little angry, and she could even be said to be a little angry. Just as they were here to argue about Shen Chao's approach, there was a new change in the bridge.

After two short Mass Effect acceleration jumps, they were able to quickly get close to the far Badzone, and now they were only one astronomical unit away from the Ring. The Covenant fleet and HALO's perfect shape in the distance can already be easily captured by the sensors, instead of the previous pixel-level image.

Also at this distance. Their communication group received multiple communication signals from the ring belt. Obviously, these communication signals carry a large amount of information, both in multiple languages and in voices.

"Unknown Ship Attention, this is the Ring 04 Guide, and I ask you to leave this star field immediately in the name of the Supreme Council of the Ai Qiu Min Empire. If you don't change course immediately, our defensive weapons will destroy you. The countdown starts now...... "The content of the message roughly translates like this.

However, just as the Autumnwind Tun, which was left unattended on the communication channel, missed the message, the Pegasos decided to ignore the message for the time being, and neither back nor reply as it had planned. At the same time, continue to approach the ring.

Anyway, their Jump Core has already been charged, and when the countdown is over, they can still avoid a possible attack and run to safety. And they continued to move forward until they entered the scanning range of the other party, and the Autumn Wind was not released until it entered the scanning range of the ring belt.

It's just that they don't know this when there is no one on the communication platform. Sure enough, shortly after entering an astronomical unit, this warning countdown message disappeared and was replaced by a new message with a great deal of confusion and some welcome.

"Humans? No, it's not all human! There are also ancient humans! No, ancient humans were enemies ... No, that's not quite right! What's going on? … Anyway, welcome, humans ......" The AI guide on the belt, the small aerostat named "343 Spark of Sin", gave such a schizophrenic reply after scanning the Pegasos. (The novel "Time Traveler's Expedition" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)

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