At that time, the Pegasus had just been destroyed, and Shen Chao was eager to find a replacement warship, and once proposed the idea of personally leading a team to explore this target world. However, everyone else objected after seeing the basic information about the target world.

They are well aware of the planes on the target's profile, and it is because of this understanding that everyone knows how dangerous it is. For different reasons, none of them could let Shen Chao, the core figure of the organization, take such a big risk.

Even Sister Xue, who had previously proposed to explore the plane, expressed her opposition at the meeting. However, those present agreed with the main point made by Shen Chao at the meeting, which was that they needed to update the flagship and accompanying fleets of the fleet as much as possible.

Therefore, the result of the final meeting was still through Shen Chao's plan, the only difference is that the implementation of the plan must not be carried out by him, the chief boss. Instead, it should be handed over to someone else to lead the team to execute.

Under such constraints, there are very few mission leaders to choose from, because the target plane is a galaxy-level civilization with a high level of technology, multi-race, and a very high level of galaxy development.

In order to ensure the effective implementation of the plan and achieve the main goal, the expedition team needed to mobilize a considerable number of troops to participate in several major steps of the plan, and only the most basic preliminary exploration required the participation of two groups. In the final stage, it is likely that the whole team will need to be deployed.

There aren't many people who have the ability to command such a complex operation, not to mention that the person in charge needs to have enough prestige to convince the people involved in the operation. In order to accomplish this task, they will select a group of personnel with the most experience in space warfare in the expedition system to carry out the battle plan.

Such a big bet requires that the leader of the team must also be perfect, so the candidates who were finally circled focused on two legendary heroes of the galaxy level that have been proven by history, one is Sister Xue, and the other is naturally the Master Chief.

Sister Xue has confirmed that she will lead the team to carry out this task. However, for the sake of insurance, Shen Chao still wanted to pull the non-commissioned officer chief into this operation. So there was this historic meeting, where Shen Chao, Sister Xue, and the Master Chief sat in the same room, discussing a task that would change the overall pattern of time and space.

This meeting was regarded as an important milestone by later historians, as in the years that followed, the main operations of the expedition gradually shifted to the direct management of the three men. The rest of the core members gradually disappeared from public view, and a new command structure took shape.

Of course, later historians will not know that the first meeting between Sister Xue and Master Chief was actually not friendly. Sister Xue's first words after seeing the non-commissioned officer who was not wearing Thor's hammer armor were: "I thought you would be very tall!" The tone of provocation and questioning is completely undisguised.

This can't be blamed entirely on her, after all, although the Master Chief has a great reputation, first, he has not joined the expedition and is still a supernumerary, and second, he has not made any contribution to the Space-Time Council. Shen Chao pulled him into the latest operation of the expedition under such circumstances. In her opinion, it was a bit under-considered.

Fortunately, Sister Xue did not intend to further tease the non-commissioned officer other than to test her language. Under Shen Chao's mediation, they quickly got to the point. The dangers of the target world were no secret to them, but the Master Chief didn't know what they were up against.

Therefore, Shen Chao first called up the expansion film for the other party to watch. Unlike a long time ago, the expedition team has already carried out a comprehensive upgrade of the database in order to control risks more effectively. Now the expansion in the database is no longer from the source of the Internet.

In order to obtain the best quality film sources and integrate the background information of the target plane, they have set up branches in several major film and television bases in the main plane, and obtain first-hand information such as chassis and script materials of various film and television dramas through guò agents.

This information has been compiled by a select group of intelligence specialists. It is embedded in the expansion in the form of subtitles, barrages, or voiceovers, so that the operator of the operation can fully understand the various information of the target plane as quickly as possible.

This is the form of the target plane footage that Master Chief is looking at right now. From time to time, various explanatory barrages appear above the characters' heads or above and below the screen with the plot, and the short expansion film is only half an hour, but it allows him to clearly understand the plot synopsis, character relationships and technical characteristics of a series of movies.

After watching the expansion, Master Chief was still a little confused, because he didn't find any special danger points, although the world described in the plot was vast. But it doesn't seem to be particularly dangerous, at least not more dangerous than his parent plane. Therefore, he didn't think that Shen Chao would need to ask him to help with anything.

"The footage you see can only be used as a reference, where the actual situation is far more dangerous than the appearance in the movie. Show him the props we've collected......" Sister Xue prompted. Shen Chao immediately called up a video of the weapons test for the Master Chief to watch.

Although the target plane they are going to this time is dangerous, a small group of expedition members have already entered and explored it in a small area. They also disguised themselves as merchants and brought back some small arms from the local underground market to test their performance.

This is the part of the weapons test video that Master Chief is watching right now, and in the movie, these weapons look limited in their lethality and when hit. Although it is clearly an energy weapon, the lethality of the table does not seem to be much higher than that of the UNSC's standard live-fire weapon.

However, just like Sister Xue said, those materials can only be used as a reference. The results of the actual tests at the expedition's range were as follows: after opening the maximum gear, the most common rifle of the group penetrated the turret of a light tank as a target vehicle in one shot.

In fact, the turret was deformed as a whole after being penetrated, like a collapsed cake, and the hull was reddened in a large chunk. Obviously, the power of that shot was not fully released, and a large part of the energy was converted into heat energy and transferred to the body, which eventually destroyed most of the tank.

Considering that the target vehicle used for the test was only a cannon fodder tank of the Cold War era in the 20th century, this achievement does not seem particularly scary. But considering that it was only a small weapon for infantry, and that it was only an ordinary retired military rifle for testing, the result was quite striking.

After all, the turret of the target vehicle is more than 60 centimeters thick, and the strength is equivalent to at least one meter of homogeneous steel, which can penetrate such thick armor, indicating that the single-shot power of the gun used in the test has surpassed that of the mainstream tank guns in the main plane.

The Master Chief simulated in his mind the consequences of this shot hitting his Thor's Hammer armor according to the number of piercing depths, and the results showed that even the strongest part of his Thor's Hammer frontal armor could hardly withstand such a powerful blow with such a penetrating power in a fully shielded state.

By analogy, the actual combat power of the battleships that appear in the expansion is undoubtedly much stronger than what is shown on the table, and the weapon attack power is so high that the slightest tactical mistake in battle will bury itself, and only the most experienced veterans can calmly deal with the battle under such firepower conditions.

Thinking of this, the Master Chief somewhat understood Shen Chao's train of thought. Yes, the weapons of the target plane are far more powerful than their existing ones, but the people in them are undoubtedly ordinary humans, at least the vast majority of them do not have that magical superpower.

Under such circumstances, as long as the gap in weapons can be resolved, the expedition team can do a lot of things by relying on the huge advantages of their combatants' quality, as long as they avoid the most dangerous areas and groups, they should be able to complete a series of mission objectives proposed by Shen Chao.

"I don't need you to reply now, the potential danger of this mission is so great that no one can guarantee the life or death of the operatives. However, it is a great opportunity for all of us. I need a new fleet, and you need my help against the Covenant. If you'd like to get involved now, I can promise to return to your home plane as soon as you've assembled your new fleet to support the UNSC's defense of Earth. ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't participate, I will still organize a fleet to support the UNSC at the right time, it won't make much difference to your comrades, but for you, it may be a few years later......"

Shen Chao made his own conditions. He didn't expect the Master Chief to say yes immediately, in fact, even if the Master Chief refused his invitation, he wouldn't be too surprised, and the plan would still go according to schedule. The biggest effect of adding Master Chief to this program is to provide Sister Xue with an extra help and a competitor.

The personnel of a single team are too risky to carry out this mission and are easy to be wiped out, so the safest way is to divide into two teams and carry out the mission objectives in parallel. In this way, if any team has an accident, the other team can continue to carry out the mission.

After this meeting, the Master Chief spent a few more days studying all the video and text materials related to the target world. While deeply aware of the risks, he also had the same view as Shen Chao, as long as he was careful, most of the dangers seemed to be easily avoided.

With this in mind, he finally agreed to join the operation and soon joined the team that would participate in the operation and began targeted training. This is the first time that Master Chief has been involved in the day-to-day operations of an expedition.

Before this, he had also heard a lot of rumors about the expedition, thinking that it was a purely combat unit. It wasn't until he actually saw the daily state of these people that he knew it was a huge misunderstanding. (To be continued......)

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