"If I promise this, I'll have to take part in the entire operation to capture the supercarrier, and you'll have to tell me who you are when this mission is over!" In the end, Noble6 decided to agree to Shen Chao's plan in a limited way, and also asked Shen Chao to make some information compromises.

It is obvious that Shen Chao has superior military resources and means of military investment. To rashly refuse the other party's request is to push away a potentially powerful ally, not to mention whether they will be blamed by their boss for this when they go back, his own reason cannot allow him to make such a choice.

"Well, I agree to your conditions, second lieutenant. Shen Chao agreed to his conditions and shook hands with the other party. At this time, the Covenant supercarrier outside the bridge was already close at hand, and the light cruiser they were on would be approaching in about 2 minutes.

It has to be said that the industrial manufacturing capacity of the Star Alliance is too much beyond their rival UNSC. The Covenant supercarrier in front of them was 28 kilometers long, and even though the ship they were on was still dozens of kilometers away from each other, from the porthole made of energy shields, the giant ship looked like it was close at hand.

For such a giant ship, Shen Chao naturally wanted to grab it. But he knew it was unlikely. Not to mention how long it takes to clean up the entire ship, just the upcoming arrival of the Covenant fleet in the plot is a big problem.

Therefore, he set a minimum goal and implemented it in two parts. The first major mission objective is to get a large group of expedition members to quickly attack the opponent's bridge and obtain the information they need about the strategic deployment of the Covenant. The second main goal is to gain access to engines and other critical systems of the ship and intercept a group of Covenant-specific command races known as "Engineers".

"Engineers" is the UNSC's name for this species, and they are the only Covenant race that UNSC has encountered that has no ill will towards humans. It looks like a swarm of opaque jellyfish flying in mid-air.

Theoretically, the Engineers are not a race within the Covenant. Because they are actually a race of low-level servants of the Precursor Creator, the individual is of low intelligence, and will obey the drive of any high-intelligence race.

These engineers are actually artificial beings constructed by nanotechnology, essentially "automata" with the ability to learn on their own. One of the purposes of the pioneers was to help future reverted civilizations rebuild their technological systems.

One of the important purposes of the expedition to the Aura Plane was to capture a group of "engineers" and bring them back to their own control area for their own use and research. Many of their construction projects and fleet building programs require such free labor.

After the terms were negotiated. The Noble6 followed Shen Chao and a large number of machine Qì troops to prepare for boarding. The Covenant light cruiser they captured sailed smoothly onto the Covenant supercarrier's battleship airport.

As soon as they leaned in and opened the hatch, thousands of security planes and hundreds of spherical drones rushed out together. There are quite a few Star Alliance troops in the airport of the supercarrier, and in order to avoid casualties, the first wave of attack forces sent out by Shen Chao can be discarded with unmanned armament.

The spherical drones released vary in configuration, and some are only equipped with the standard 4 Jace Spitfire machine guns to perform fire suppression tasks according to the different battlefield positioning. Some also carry heavy weapons such as the M-920 Cain and are responsible for area killing.

The same is true for the machine Qì troops, but because they have a lower IQ on complex battlefields, they are not equipped with heavy weapons like Cain. As soon as these unmanned units came out of the warehouse, they were violently attacked by the Star Alliance forces.

Hundreds of plasma weapons struck with heavy fire in the direction they appeared, and the elites, boar beasts, jackalmons, and even a few ghost-faced beasts were all gathering fire on these hostile machines.

Under the fierce firepower of the Star Covenant troops, the teams of people who rushed out in an arrow-shaped formation received saturation blows, and the first few squads of people who rushed out were almost all blown up instantly, but their sacrifices served the purpose of attracting firepower.

After these military planes were blown up, the other detachments of planes following them were not affected in any way. Groups of humanoid military aircraft stepped on the corpses of their comrades in front of them and continued to rush out of the unloading and boarding gates on several cruisers in a standard offensive formation.

Meantime. A group of spherical drones also flew out from above them, following the rushing humanoid people to suppress the fire. The combat intelligence, firepower, maneuverability and protection of these spherical drones are significantly stronger than those of cannon fodder machines on the ground.

Needless to say, those with 4 batteries of Jace Spitfire machine guns were suppressing the small number of Covenant troops in the airport. Several spherical drones with M-920 Cain were even more direct, and almost as soon as they burst out of the cabin, they fired their heavy weapons in several directions where the Covenant forces were relatively dense.

Bursts of explosions and violent tremors continued to be heard, so that everyone who was still preparing for the landing on the cruiser could feel the fierceness of the battle outside. However, except for a few UNSC Marines who were nervously wiping their sweat next to Noble6, everyone else was very calm and even very relaxed to prepare for the mission.

Almost two minutes after landing, more than 500 humanoid military aircraft had been launched. There were also more than 80 spherical drones that rushed out. The brainless firepower of these drones poured down, and a large no-man's land had formed in the huge warship airport outside. After confirming that the intensity of the fire outside was low enough to withstand it. Shen Chaocai rushed out with the others to set up the space-time gate.

As soon as they stepped into this airport, everyone was slightly shocked by the huge space here. Although the small cruiser of the Star Covenant that helped them get mixed up in the airport is not small, hundreds of meters in length, it is like a TV in the living room in this huge airport, and it does not seem to take up space.

The entire airport is at least 1 kilometer long and more than 800 meters wide. It is also more than 200 meters high, which is equivalent to more than 60 stories high. At this time, the ground in the vicinity had become completely charred, and the hatches of the light cruisers they had captured were already clearly showing signs of being hit by intensive fire. There are also a number of huge craters and entire death zones in the distance.

At this time, only 3 minutes had passed since they boarded the supercarrier. But the entire airfield looked as if it had been plowed over by heavy artillery, littered with ruins and the corpses of Covenant soldiers. Unmanned units have advanced to the various entrances to the airport to carry out the blockade mission according to the preset procedures.

Hundreds of spherical drones have formed several swarm-like battle groups, clearing the remnants of the enemy at the end of the airport and suppressing other Covenant forces that have arrived from other places to support. After confirming the safety, Shen Chao opened a space-time door as usual, and just like the previous time, several Atlas mechs immediately rushed over to set up a space-time door stabilizer.

Although Noble6 next to him couldn't understand how this circular "black hole" that appeared out of thin air was created, as the space-time gate with a diameter of more than 15 meters was set up, he could see clearly and record the picture with a helmet camera.

He did this to leave a point of evidence, and if he and George had relied on his and George's verbal accounts alone, no one would have believed their claims, and even the officers of the fleet command. After all, the appearance of this mysterious ally is too mysterious and too timely.

Noble6 didn't know that his act of recording evidence was not necessary, because he himself would soon have nothing to do with UNSC for a number of reasons......

Back at the scene, the space-time gate in front of him was much larger than the one that Shen Chao had opened on the cruiser before, with a diameter of 15 meters, although it was far from his current limit, but the pedals erected on the stabilizer were enough for the four hammerhead chariots to pass side by side.

In fact, after the space-time gate was stabilized, armored vehicles, spherical drones, and people kept rushing out of it. These unmanned units are divided into battle groups or mixed battle groups according to their type, and are assigned to nearby expedition members.

Shen Chao wouldn't let his team members fight with the Covenant troops here with a numerical disadvantage. For this task, almost a million unmanned combat units have been prepared in the rear. Theoretically, they could use the refueling tactic to take over the entire Covenant supercarrier in some time.

Of course, this is only a theoretical thing. In fact, shortly after they took control of the supercarrier's main airport, the team members outside reported that the Array's vanguard fleet had arrived. Since it was only a vanguard fleet, the number was not very large, and only about 100 warships reached the periphery of Zhiyuan.

Even so, their numbers frightened the UNSC fleet command, which was still waiting for its own fleet battle group. The number of warships they had here at this time was too small, less than 100, and without a three-fold advantage in number, it was impossible for them to stop so many Covenant warships, so, after a brief panic, they immediately decided to transfer the few warships that arrived away from the system. Let them join up with the large army and then rush back to save the scene.

It was a decision that echoed tactical logic, but such a decision also meant that the entire surface of Zhiyuan was ruthlessly abandoned by them. In the absence of air and space supremacy, the ground forces are targets that attract naval artillery fire.

Back in the supercarrier, which was still in the crossfire, Shen Chao did not become nervous after receiving the report of the arrival of the Star Alliance fleet. It was expected that the Covenant fleet would arrive at this time, and judging from the distance, it would take about ten minutes for those warships to reach the supercarrier, not to mention the time it would take to land. (Want to know more about Time Traveler's Expedition?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and never miss every update! (To be continued......)

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