This was a choice he had made after careful consideration, and he was unwilling to take refuge in Shen Chao, whom he had just met, and his uninformed space-time council, nor was he willing to take matters into his own hands and place a bet on UNSC, whom he no longer trusted. In contrast, he preferred to let Master Chief make this choice for him.

And what he can do himself is to help the Master Chief share the pressure, and after listening to Noble No. 6's suggestion, the Master Chief couldn't think of any reason to refute it, and Cortana, who was still trapped on the control platform, also strongly agreed.

On the one hand, Cortana, who has read the information of Noble6, knows how outstanding the opponent's ability is, and has a proud record of single-handedly destroying an entire Covenant force. Coupled with the experience of escorting herself, she can be trusted.

On the other hand, and most importantly, with Noble6 to take the risk, the Master Chief she cared about the most, didn't need to take the risk. Eventually, this is how they were arranged, with the Noble6 navigating Cortana to search for the Covenant battleship and steal the Storage, while the Master Chief set out on a quest to find the Indexer.

After some scouting and travel, Noble6, with the help of Cortana, found a Star Dream cruiser that he hoped to infiltrate, a Covenant cruiser named Truth and Harmony, on a search mission at low altitude near the Ring.

Wearing the new optical camouflage on its armor, the Noble6 carefully bypassed the Covenant forces patrolling the ground nearby, successfully reaching the battleship not far from the ground through the guò elevator. After boarding, he carefully looked around, and it was strange to find that there were no Covenant troops.

He didn't know that just as he was nervously infiltrating the Star Covenant warship, a group of high-level explorers led by Shen Chao were actually watching his actions in real time. Hargrave didn't just repair and upgrade his armor before, but also installed some new systems on his armor. This includes a set of positioning devices that are completely undetectable with UNSC's technology.

The real-time location of the Noble6 was no secret to the expedition team at all, and a small group of expedition members had been following them from a distance since he and the Master Chief had embarked on a journey to find the indexer, and as for his previous conversation with the Master Chief, it had long been overheard.

Seeing Noble6 change his mind and help Master Chief instead of himself, the "lifesaver". They also spent some time discussing the impact of each other's actions on the expedition.

"I'll just say that the forerunner won't be that weak, and besides, this guy you see doesn't seem to have a very bright brain!" Alice reminded Shen Chao with a smug smile that it was usually her guess that was overturned by Shen Chao during the mission.

The rare time was when she made the right bet, not only did she guess correctly about the release of the Forerunner technical data, but also concluded that Noble6 would not choose the expedition team at a critical moment. chose the right two questions in a row, which made her a little reluctant to show off in front of Shen Chao.

"Well, you win. But I still have hope for Noble6. Shen Chao said as he looked at the moving icon representing Noble6 on the map. With that, he left the central control room with the people, including Hargrave, who chose to break the previous agreement between the two sides due to Master Chief. Naturally, their follow-up arrangements have also changed.

Shen Chao naturally would not sit idly by and watch the other party take away valuable technical information, so that the expedition team that had been busy for so long and contracted all the hard work would lose its harvest. But he also didn't want to be a villain on this issue, so he resorted to some compromises, one of which had to be done by himself.

Back in the present, in the cabin of the cruiser Truth and Harmony, the newly boarded Noble6 moved carefully in the cabin, but to his surprise. He didn't encounter any resistance along the way, or more precisely, no one.

There are no high-level elites and ghost-faced beasts that worry him. I haven't even seen a single cannon fodder like Boar Beast and Jackal Beast. The Covenant cruiser was like a ghost ship, and there was silence everywhere.

Although it was very weird, he still stubbornly moved in the direction of the bridge after winning the mission. If he had chosen to disembark the same way at this time, he would have found that the dozens of Covenant infantry who had patrolled the ground before had turned into a pile of corpses on the ground, replaced by several squads of expedition members quietly cleaning up the battlefield.

It was only after cautiously approaching the bridge and seeing the gate to the bridge that he understood what had happened. There are some corpses of high-ranking elites who have had their throats cut and headshots in the vicinity. At first glance, it is caused by an unfamiliar weapon, and does not belong to any UNSC or Covenant equipment sequence.

But Noble6, who had seen expeditions operate on a large scale, recognized the weapon from which the wounds came from. The gunshot wound was the same as the one he had seen from the Mass Effect weapon before.

"The expedition is here!" He understood this in an instant, but this realization did not give him a solution to the problem. The last thing he wanted to see now was the space-time expedition that he had just "betrayed" by him and the Master Chief.

Unlike his previous attempts to deviate from the UNSC's duties, he did not owe UNSC anything after being born and died countless times for UNSC, but now he still owes the expedition team a life-saving grace. It would be embarrassing for him to see or clash with the other person now.

Come to think of it. He wanted to get out of the ship the same way, but before he could leave, the strange noise in the cabin in front of him stopped, and then the hatch was opened, and Shen Chao walked out of it with a few people.

What made Noble6 feel incredible was that there were at least two ghost-faced beasts and 3 elite corpses lying on the ground in the cabin behind him, and in such a situation, the other party could actually put down these elite warriors of the Covenant with hand-to-hand combat without relying on firearms!

Even a whole squad of Spartan warriors did not dare to say that they would be able to achieve similar results. And after Shen Chao left the bridge that they had just occupied, he followed the prompts on the HUD and walked straight to the Noble6 who was still in stealth mode, hoping to avoid him.

"No need to disguise, second lieutenant, I know you're here!" Shen Chao walked to the team of boxes where the other party was hiding and said, his words made the guilty Noble No. 6 eager to dig a hole and get into it immediately.

But there is no point in continuing to hide, Noble6 also guessed that he should have a tracker on him at this time, otherwise he would not be discovered by Shen Chao so lightly. Since this is the case, he walked out generously and prepared to talk to the other party.

At this time, the Star Covenant cruiser had not yet been emptied, although Shen Chao rushed to seize the ship with the most elite strength of the expedition, but the team members could not teleport after all, they could only clean up the cabins one by one, and only about half of the space on the ship had been emptied so far.

After finding Noble6, Shen Chao didn't immediately talk to the other party about the indexer, instead, he took Noble6 to clean up the remaining cabins one by one as if nothing had happened.

About half an hour later, after all the Covenant infantry on the ship had been cleared, Shen Chao finally returned to the bridge with the Noble6, and the two sides sat down and began to talk about what had happened before. And there are many members of the expedition team nearby who are busy in front of several control platforms on this bridge, not knowing what they are doing.

"I know you're here for something, give, here's the storage you need." Shen Chao sat down and didn't ask anything, he directly took the freshly seized storage device handed over by others and handed it to Noble6.

What he handed over to the other party was a blank storage that had just been removed from the server on the bridge, and theoretically, such a storage could store Cortana's intelligent core very safely.

"I ......" Noble 6, who felt ashamed, didn't know what to say at this point. He had just betrayed Shen Chao's trust, and the other party had no intention of revenge after knowing his actions, and actually helped him achieve his current goal, which made him even more guilty and confused. He felt obligated to explain his actions, otherwise he didn't know how he would face today's choices later.

"You don't need to explain, second lieutenant. I know what choices you've made, and I understand your motivations. In fact, many of these people have done almost identical things. None of them gave me all their trust the day they saw me, and I will not ask you to trust your trust unconditionally! ”

Shen Chao pointed to a group of expedition members beside him as an example, and after hearing him say this, Roy, who was sorting out the ship's intelligence not far away, smiled awkwardly. He knew that Shen Chao was citing his own example.

Before and after joining the expedition, he had some "out-of-line" behavior, when he was still in the expedition for a short time, and he didn't quite believe that following Shen Chao could liberate and save his replicant brothers and sisters, for this reason, he had done some stupid things, almost making him lose his privileges as an A-class member. But fortunately, Shen Chao listened to his report and finally solved the trust problem.

"I know that both you and the Master Chief would prefer the UNSC to receive the Precursor technology, but there is a small problem here, I can't let you leave with this precious information alone, I also need a copy......"

Shen Chao gave Noble6 a new condition here, if the other party finds a way to make a copy of the technical information given by the previous 343 Spark of Evil and send it over, Shen Chao promises to help when the Star Alliance attacks the earth, otherwise. His space-time fleet will sit idly by and watch the Earth be breached by the Star Covenant!

Of course, this last part may not happen, and even if the plot is greatly affected at the moment, it is still possible that Master Chief will almost single-handedly turn the tide of the war on Earth as he did in the original plot. (To be continued......)

PS: First of all, thank you for the "invisible" who voted for the monthly ticket and the generous reward for "diving for the first and 40 days"

Thank you again for the book friends who voted for the reward in the past few days, the black cat is too busy and tired these days, and Yan zhòng has affected the update time and quantity, and when the week is over, it should be better.