Chapter 520: The Problem of Trust
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Hargrave talks about this highly classified topic as if he were talking to Alice about riddles. So much so that the mysterious technological advances they spoke of in conversation were undoubtedly an unhinted riddle to those who didn't know the inside story, at least the members of Team 102 who were sitting on the same shuttle were confused when they heard it.
As they were talking, they were about to talk about the main point, when the leading shuttle piloted by Shen Chao suddenly stopped, and she, as a wingman, also stopped, it turned out that they had found the forced landing location of the Autumn Wind Dun.
At this time, the hull of the Autumn Wind Dun was still almost 2,000 meters away from Shen Chao and them. Black smoke was rising from the bottom of the wreckage and several damaged hull armors, and nearly a hundred Covenant soldiers were gathering nearby, as well as a small Covenant troop carrier full of infantry on its way.
The inside of the Autumnwind Dun was constantly bursting with fierce firefights, and it seemed that Captain Keith had not been captured by the Covenant, otherwise the exchange would have ended. However, as things stand, even if they don't help immediately, Captain Keith won't necessarily be captured by the Covenant as he did in the original plot.
Unlike in the original plot, since Shen Chao's previous individual weapons left for the Autumn Wind were in batches, the marines and ODST soldiers who replaced these weapons all exerted their combat effectiveness far beyond the original plot.
This situation was reflected in the previous Covenant Gang Jumping Battle, although the defensive power of the armor on the body was still rubbish, and it could only play a comforting role in the battle. But the UNSC Marines and ODST veterans, who had changed their guns and increased their attack power, held their lines throughout the ship, rather than being overwhelmed by the Covenant forces as they usually do in in-ship battles.
They blocked the Covenant's gang jumpers. Preventing these guys from rushing into important parts of the hull and wreaking havoc, there are far more UNSC soldiers surviving on the Autumnwind than in the plot, and since most of the vehicles are undamaged, their capacity is quite sufficient, and even most of the vehicles in the cabin are still usable.
Just when Shen Chao led the 102 team to quietly leave the warehouse in the distance and quietly landed on the ground to prepare for observation. The form of the battlefield in the distance suddenly changed dramatically, and a Scorpio tank, blackened by plasma in many parts of its body, suddenly burst out of the cabin and fell heavily to the ground through an exit nearly ten meters high.
The tank also had a handful of mutilated limbs of Covenant infantry hanging from its hull, which looked like enemies killed while fighting in the cabin. After falling to the ground, the tank was visibly damaged and could no longer move. But the turret and the operators inside were apparently fine, and soon began to bombard the nearby Covenant infantry.
The Marines and the surviving crew of the Autumnwind also took the opportunity to rush out and launch an assault on the encirclement that the Covenant forces had not yet formed. Seeing this scene, the nearby Star Alliance hurriedly dodged around. Only a handful of fighters of the elite category immediately rallied their fire.
Obviously, none of them expected that their boarding force would be beaten out by humans, and they did not expect that the enemy would have heavy vehicles that could be driven. After seeing the Scorpion Tank, one of the elite berserkers at the scene immediately scolded his colleagues who had failed to board the ship several times before.
"It's all a bunch of waste. The Elite Berserker thought so, and with a loud roar, he prepared to walk around with a few Covenant infantry, charging over to engage the human infantry while avoiding the fire of the Scorpion tank. This elite who believes in melee combat and the courage of their enemies is apparently unaware that their opponents have changed their weapons.
He also deduced that his opponent was still some "weak chicken" with poor firepower based on his previous experience of fighting humans, and as a result, this berserker had just rushed out with people for a dozen paces before the human marines who rushed out were taken care of.
The solid shield on his body only helped him hold him up for two seconds before it was broken by a dense range of projectiles fired from Gauss rifles. Then his whole body was beaten into a puddle of rotten meat. The small number of Covenant infantry that followed him quickly followed in his footsteps.
Seeing a berserker being killed by a human in an instant, and by a human small arms after avoiding tank fire. This kind of reversal of the three views frightened many of the nearby Star Covenant infantry.
Although the Covenant often suffered partial defeats in ground battles with the UNSC, it was only when humans dispatched heavy troops to form a local superior force or simply a group of Spartan warriors together. It's not like now, a group of ordinary soldiers of the UNSC can actually fight with an equal number of them in battle.
The strength of the two sides on the scene is basically the same, and it seems that there are slightly more soldiers in the Star Alliance, but this battle exchange ratio is like the battle loss ratio of the two sides is reversed in peacetime, which makes it difficult to look at it directly.
"They're playing well? It seems that we need to help them clear the field......" Shen Chao commented after looking at the scene, the 102 team he led had already set up group firepower points in the half minute just now, once they joined the battle and cooperated with the UNSC in the distance to form a flanking attack, then they could quickly eliminate the nearby Star Alliance troops without using heavy weapons.
Team 102 set up their weapons and prepared to fight. Shen Chao opened a temporary space-time gate not far from his side, transferred a few spherical machine qì people, and set up the Star Alliance infantry in the distance as an attack target for these spherical machine qì people. He then took a few seconds to give orders to another team operating in the vicinity to find a way to take out the Covenant transport ship that was heading in this direction.
As for how to kill it, that's the squad's own business, it doesn't matter if they board the ship to drop bombs or use the heavy weapons in their hands, they don't need to operate secretly on this ring anyway. More than ten seconds later, he arranged a qiē preparation before firing, and several spherical armed drones also rushed to the target.
On the battlefield in the distance, a strange "aaaa......" noise suddenly came from the air, successfully distracting the Covenant infantry on the ground. The Covenant infantry was startled by the noise. Looking up, several white spherical drones appeared in the air a few hundred meters away. Immediately, a dense burst of fire came from that direction and hit them on the head.
Due to the dense firepower of the drones, these Covenant forces were quickly killed and wounded, and because the firepower on the scene was very chaotic and dense at this time, they did not find it, except for these drones of unknown origin. There was also direct fire from the rear that was unhurriedly firing at them.
One by one, the elites who tried to take over the command position were quickly killed by the 102 squad in the distance with the weapons in their hands, and the remaining Covenant infantry were quickly scattered and wiped out. In the end, when all the Covenant forces on the scene were eliminated, the shuttle that Shen Chao was riding quickly passed through the layers of gunpowder smoke on the battlefield and landed steadily in front of a group of UNSC soldiers led by Captain Case.
Since that burst of firepower just now was obviously helping them, Captain Keith could naturally figure out that this was the force that helped them. But when the hatch opened, he was taken aback, because the first person to step out of the cabin was the Noble6 that he had seen on the battlefield of Zhiyuan Star half a day ago.
He was the only Spartan warrior on the scene and a believable face. So Shen Chao asked him to come out first to explain the current situation. It doesn't matter if his words can't help, as a Spartan warrior, he can help just standing there as a background, at least in terms of probability, it will make it easier for Shen Chao to convince the group of UNSC soldiers on the other side to believe in him.
"Captain Case, you should remember me!" As soon as he jumped off the shuttle, Noble6 walked over to say hello. Although the Covenant infantry on the scene had been cleaned up, the troop carrier in the distance had just been blown up by another expedition. But according to the number jù given by Shen Chao. In less than 10 minutes, the next landing force of the Covenant will find this place.
"That's right. Ensign, how could I forget! But what is this place, and who are these people? After seeing and hearing the other party's voice, Captain Case naturally immediately recognized that this was the Spartan warrior who had covered the retreat of the Autumn Wind on the Reach Star more than half a day ago.
However, he never imagined that his ship would see this Spartan warrior in this strange ring after a great battle and a blind jump. What is even more inexplicable is why a Spartan warrior has these unidentified militants on his side!
Captain Case, who has served at UNSC for decades, can certainly recognize that the people who came out of the Noble6 are not UNSC soldiers, and the weapons and armor they used, and even the drones in the air just now are not something that UNSC has.
Based on what he knew, it was reasonable to assume that Noble 6 had not been killed even after covering their departure. He should still be trapped on the surface of Zhiyuan. How could they be in this strange place like them?
"It's a very long story, now, if you want to survive the Covenant, please come along, and we can talk about the details in a safe place!" Shen Chao walked over and took over the topic from Noble No. 6.
Looking at the corpses of the Star Covenant infantry and the wounded in his own team, Captain Keith also knew that it was a death to talk on this uncovered small plain, so without knowing the identity of the other party, they followed Shen Chao's footsteps and stepped into the forest not far away.
"At least, they won't be the Covenant's people!" Captain Case comforted himself with this decision. (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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