Shortly after they arrived at their destination, the shape of the shì outside suddenly changed drastically. The Covenant Tracking Fleet Command, which had not waited for several hours for the infiltrator to report, finally couldn't help but be curious, and ordered the entire fleet to jump to the planetary system where Chamhack was located.

Because it was a fleet-level group jump, the spatial disturbance caused by the arrival was very large and long-lasting for the shipboard instruments, so it was detected by the space-time fleet almost the moment they jumped here.

"Multiple jumps were found to have reached the target, with a preliminary bearing estimated at 080.092, 5 to 20 astronomical ......units from us," said a series of recent discoveries from the bridge of the Pegasos, which was quickly reported to Demien, who had taken over as fleet commander.

When the latter heard such a report, he sighed silently, lamenting that such emergencies always seemed to happen after he took over the command. Shen Chao didn't seem to encounter such an inexplicable unplanned emergency when he was commanding the fleet.

Like many on the expedition, Damien was not very supportive of the plan to explore the ruins of Chamhaq. His main concern was the situation he encountered at this time, this was the home of the Star Alliance, and if he didn't do it well, their fleet would be beaten by a group.

But now that he was here, he still hoped that things would happen as Shen Chao expected. Unexpectedly, not long after Shen Chao left the fleet with the guests, the situation he was most worried about happened.

"Damn, send a message to the captain and inform him that we must evacuate immediately. At the same time, the second battle group moved here to attract the enemy's attention as much as possible...... "Damien issued this series of instructions before the enemy's forces and course information were confirmed.

He didn't believe that the large fleet that appeared in this galaxy at this time would belong to any other force except the Star Alliance, and it would definitely not be a coincidence that the Star Alliance's fleet suddenly appeared in this system. They had previously confirmed the reconnaissance and navigation plans of all the Covenant ships in the vicinity for hundreds of light-years, and this fleet was definitely unplanned.

After receiving Damien's order, an urgent notice message was immediately transmitted directly to Shen Chao and his party on the surface of Chamhak. At this time, Shen Chao was just about to take the members of the delegation into the ruins to visit, after seeing this news. He immediately frowned.

Exploring the ruins of Chamhak should have been the safest of missions, but I didn't expect to be discovered after less than a day here. After thinking about it for more than ten seconds, he finally gave up on his original plan and decided to withdraw all his troops and leave the system.

But that didn't mean he would abandon his plans to excavate the ruins, although the Covenant's fleet had arrived unexpectedly. Their fleet must avoid this head-on confrontation, but that doesn't mean they can't continue digging for ruins.

After sending most of the incapable members of the delegation to the shuttle on the return journey and issuing the order for all ground forces to retreat, Shen Chao himself walked into the depths of the ruins with the members of the guard and several Spartan soldiers, including the master officer.

The ruins here will not stop them, the "ancient humans", and although the Master Chief and they are not identified as friendly targets, they will not be attacked by the security system of the ruins accompanied by Shen Chao.

As long as they enter the depths of the ruins, the security system of the ruins will automatically close the passage when they enter, so that the personnel of the Star Alliance cannot enter, and if they want to leave, Shen Chao and they can always evacuate safely through a newly opened space-time door.

Under such an arrangement. Other detachments on the surface of Chamhak quickly abandoned equipment such as drones that were difficult to carry, and all fighters boarded the shuttles and withdrew to the fleet as fast as they could.

At the same time, Shen Chao and the others finally entered the huge ruins to explore the legacy left by ancient humans. The passages in the ruins are very tall, at least a dozen meters high, and look like they were designed for giants.

All the building materials in the passage appear to be stone, and if it weren't for the previous archaeological team's confirmation that many of the stone walls have mechanical mechanisms. There are many preset traps in the road, and it's hard to believe that this is a building left behind by a highly evolved interstellar civilization.

While Shen Chao and they were exploring the ruins. The space-time fleet is nervously dealing with the current situation. Instead of wasting time searching for the Covenant's fleet after arriving in this planetary system, they headed straight for Chamhak, which had been caught in a communication outage.

Although the second battle group attracted the firepower of some of the Star Alliance warships, the other party seemed to see that they were bait, and the main fleet was still rushing to Chamhak. At this time, the surface withdrawal operation was not completely over.

Most of the detachments had already withdrawn to the Pegasos, but according to their expectations, before the last group arrived. The Covenant's ships will then enter the combat radius of both sides. Frontal battles are inevitable.

"Attention all of you in Battle Group 1, we will engage the enemy in 2 minutes, and all of us will adopt the 014 battle plan, and save ourselves as the first priority. All ships are to make sure that the jump engines are in a warm-up state......" Demien gave a series of battle orders with a little nervousness.

At this time, the origin and number of the enemy had been determined, and there were nearly 100 warships in the invading Star Covenant tracking fleet. Far surpass them in terms of numbers and intensity of fire.

Although it has excellent range, the space-time fleet can gain a unilateral advantage in the early stage of the battle, and even has the ability to severely damage the opponent's fleet. But they can't fight here for long, or casualties will be inevitable.

The actual battle began a little later than Demien expected, and after finally arriving at the outskirts of Chamhak and encountering the Spacetime Fleet, the other side seemed to be very surprised, and was so surprised that instead of immediately firing at them, nearly a hundred Covenant warships lined up in a wide battle formation to confront them.

The two sides did not immediately fight. This was a surprise to Damien and everyone else in the fleet, but instead of digging into the reason, they took advantage of the gap to quickly retract the last of the men, and then made a collective jump out of the system in front of the other party's eyes.

The reason why the Covenant's tracking fleet hesitated to fire at them immediately was because the Temporal Fleet was mistaken for the fleet of a new interstellar race, due to the fact that the previous battles with the Covenant were very brief and did not leave the other side with usable identification information.

Therefore, there is no ship style of the Zài space-time fleet in the number of JÙ libraries of the Star Alliance, and they were not able to identify them as enemies, and during the voyage, the space-time fleet was not detected by them until a very close distance, which made the commander of the Star Alliance's tracking fleet make the judgment that the technical level of the other ship's ship was significantly higher than his own, which allowed the two sides to avoid an almost doomed firefight.

At the same time that the space-time fleet escaped, Shen Chao and the others also went deep into the core area of the ruins. Due to the need to collect a number of jù, Shen Chao temporarily borrowed Cortana's chip from the Master Chief to collect information on some hidden terminals along the way.

At one of the intersections, they suddenly encountered an "accident", and a stone wall that suddenly appeared blocked between Shen Chao and the non-commissioned officer, separating them into two teams. However, thanks to the power of communication technology, the communication between them has not been interrupted.

"This must be some kind of defense mechanism in the ruins, don't worry, I'll open another way......" Shen Chaotong used communication equipment to pacify the Master Chief on the other side of the wall, but in fact, the accident itself was arranged by him.

One of the previous expedition teams that entered the ruins had already entered the core area of the ruins and obtained control of the security system. Compared to the security system they had found on the ring before, the security system in the ancient human ruins here was not so advanced.

Compared to the fully automatic security mode, which is directly controlled by AI like 343 Sparks, the security system here is more like a semi-automatic mode. As long as a human being identified by the system enters the control room, it can easily obtain the control rights of the system.

Shen Chao just asked the team members in the control room to temporarily adjust the settings, and suddenly blocked a heavy stone door between him and the non-commissioned officer. Of course, he didn't mean to harm the other party, he just wanted to use this opportunity to talk to Cortana.

At this time, Cortana's chip was on a terminal not far from the stone gate, and when Shen Chao was talking to the master chief, her hologram was watching with her arms crossed, as if she could see Shen Chao's intentions.

"This wall isn't an accident, is it?" If so, the terminal I'm on now won't come without warning. After Shen Chao hung up the communication with the Master Chief, Cortana's hologram leaned against a virtual wall, raised her eyebrows and asked Shen Chao not far away. Although her words were asking, her tone was completely affirmative.

"That's right, it's not an accident, I just need a few minutes to talk to you. Shen Chao said and opened the opaque mask on his helmet and gave an affirmative answer to the right one.

He knew that Cortana could detect polygraphs by means of facial expressions and changes in skin color. In the brief conversation that followed, it would take a great deal of trust to come up with something useful, so he wanted to show his honesty and show Cortana that he wasn't lying. And then make some breakthroughs.

Shen Chao had been trying to recruit Master Chief before, but both the first attempt on the ring belt and the language test before and after entering the ruins had ended in failure. As the return date approached, Shen Chao gradually realized that perhaps the breakthrough had never been in the Master Chief himself.

Master Chief himself may be infinitely loyal to the UNSC, but according to the events in the series, he cares more about the people he cares about. Even at the expense of disobeying the orders of his superiors. (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the commuter pass of "Jackyc", and I'll see you tomorrow