Chapter 526: Ring Band Messenger
If his target was really an ordinary elite, Juan would have cut the opponent's front neck with a knife or stabbed the opponent's eye socket with a knife. But Master Chief is clearly not that kind of commodity. Although Juan, who was only wearing a light nanosuit, barely made any sound when he fell, the Master Chief still relied on instinct to dodge.
One unsuccessful pounce was unsuccessful, and Juan immediately escaped from his pistol and fired several shots in the direction of the nearby disturbance, one of which hit the Master Chief's armor, rendering his stealth effect ineffective and taking shape.
But this was only because Master Chief was raising his gun and aiming it at him. It was only then that Juan realized that the "elite" he had attacked was actually the "guest" they were waiting for. For a while, I didn't know whether to continue the attack or what to do.
The Master Chief, who was aiming his gun at him, had no doubt about this, and immediately pulled the trigger after aiming at the target that was attacking him, but, just like Captain Keith before, the Gauss rifle in his hand suddenly went silent.
However, Master Chief was noticeably quicker, and he didn't panic or be overwhelmed when he realized that the weapon in his hand had suddenly failed. Immediately, an arrow rushed over and smashed the butt of a rifle at Juan, who was still hesitating.
Although Juan's own strength is limited, he reacts extremely quickly and is extremely agile, and after dodging the butt of the Master Chief's gun, he immediately retreats to dodge, relying on his agility to dodge the Master Chief's attack and carry out limited defensive counterattacks.
However, Master Chief obviously also has experience in dealing with extremely flexible opponents, although he failed to touch him in the first few moves, but after more than a dozen moves, Master Chief still seized the opportunity and took advantage of Juan's opportunity to dodge his tentative attack and hit the opponent in the head with an elbow, causing Juan to be dizzy.
At this time. The members of the expedition team around him had noticed the movement and rushed here one after another, and after hearing the sound of the group coming through the jungle, the master chief quickly threw down the Gauss rifle, which was no longer usable, replaced his pistol, grabbed Juan, who had been knocked to the ground by him, and held him hostage with his pistol on the other party's head.
Meantime. He also took out a grenade, pulled out the fuse, and held it in his hand ready to be thrown out at any time. After he made these preparations, he saw dozens of figures suddenly flash out of optical camouflage around him.
The men were all heavily armed, wearing strange armor and carrying weapons he had never seen before. A glance at the figures showed that these figures were all human, but they were definitely not from the Autumn Wind Dun, and they were definitely not from any UNSC establishment.
"It's nice to finally meet you, Master Chief. Also, welcome to the No. 04 Ring Belt! "After his own men surrounded the Master Chief. Shen Chao suddenly stood up from behind the bushes more than ten meters in front of him, lifted the optical camouflage and revealed his figure, and Captain Case was still running this way, as an ordinary person, he certainly did not have the strange movement speed of Shen Chao and his expedition members.
"Who are you, and where is Captain Case?" The master chief grabbed his hostage, but moved the muzzle of his gun to Shen Chao and asked.
"Take it easy, Master Chief. If I had tried to harm you and your companions, you would never have landed safely on this belt. Let alone. I've given you so many weapons. If you don't believe me, you can ask Cortana," Shen Chao said, taking off his helmet.
He didn't hide his figure the whole time when he landed on the Autumn Wind Dun to give gifts, and if Cortana had looked closely at the surveillance footage, he would have found that he had turned his face to a camera and left a "hint".
"It's true! He appeared in the video of the hibernation chamber, and I thought it was the staff on the space station...... "Cortana remembered the fleeting figure of Shen Chao that she had seen in the surveillance video earlier.
"Master Chief, stop. They are not our enemies! Captain Keith gasped and ran over here, and hurriedly persuaded Master Chief. Under the persuasion of the two, the Master Chief let Juan go, and the members of the expedition who surrounded him all lowered their guns at the same time.
After everyone laid down their weapons, the atmosphere at the scene was effectively eased. This was an opportunity for effective communication. Although the master chief reluctantly accepted the concept that the other side was not an enemy. But he still needs to know who he's up against.
"What is this place and who are you?" Master Chief asked. Although he seemed to have subdued Juan quickly just now, his own family knew his own affairs, and he could feel that the other party obviously regretted and stopped after the fight began, otherwise with Juan's agile body, he would not just dodge his attack and be knocked down by himself so quickly.
"This huge ring is a Precursor relic, more precisely, it is a weapon used to deal with the spread of the Flood Demons, as for us, you can treat us as the same kind from another universe......" Shen Chao briefly described his identity.
Of course, as usual, he didn't expect the other party to believe in himself right away. So after explaining his identity, he took the half-believing Master Chief to check the evidence. Since he didn't expect to recruit Master Chief in the short term, he didn't immediately open the time gate in front of the other party to let Master Chief experience the feeling of traveling through time and space.
In that case, he would be putting himself and the Master Chief in a very embarrassing situation, because it was impossible for Shen Chao to let people who had seen the Time and Space Gate come and go freely, at least at this stage. And the imposition of restrictions on the freedom of movement of the Master Chief will undoubtedly be counterproductive to recruitment.
And if he makes a special exception and allows the Master Chief to freely return to the UNSC's control area after seeing the Time Gate, then the Master Chief must report his findings, which is not only very likely to be regarded as a madman, but also prematurely leaks the existence of the expedition and the Time Council in front of the UNSC.
At this time, in the face of such an embarrassing situation, it is better not to let the Master Chief immediately face such a multiple-choice question now. To this end, he took the Master Chief on the shuttle and the first stop was the ring belt control zhì room, which had been discovered and occupied by the expedition.
The entrance to the Ring's Chamber, located in a nondescript part of the Ring, looks ordinary, like many man-made buildings dotted around the Belt. At this time, the periphery of this place was already controlled by the expedition team, half of the squadron was guarding outside, and the rest were already in the control room.
After passing through a few doors and a series of forks, they entered the center of the control room. There's a lot of space, at least the size of several football fields, and a central point with a control platform and a huge holographic map of the ring.
When they entered, they were surrounded by a group of scientists led by Hargrave, and there were a number of UNSC soldiers who were used as human shields nearby, and a hoverplane hovering man was shouting something to the crowd.
"Stop, you primitives! This facility is not for you! And you, Returnees, stay away from these primitives, they are dangerous......" The hovering man kept shouting, it was the 343 Spark of Sin, an artificial intelligence machine created by the Forerunners using the brains of ancient humans.
Although it was built using the intelligence and body of ancient humans as the ontology, 343 Spark of Evil has long forgotten its identity before becoming an AI in tens of thousands of years of watch, and now it is just a relic left by the forerunners, serving the descendants of the forerunners.
The humans of the Aura Plane were added to the Precursor's genetic key, so he recognized them as the descendants of the Precursors, while the people of the expedition were still identified by him as potential enemies, although there was no significant difference in appearance.
Of course, now that these "descendants of the forerunners" are in front of him, it is naturally impossible for him to directly attack the "ancient humans" who are inspecting and controlling the platform, and for some reason, 343 Spark of Evil feels that he is not willing to attack these "primitives".
Seeing the non-commissioned officer who had just entered the control room, the 343 spark of sin hurriedly flew over as if he had seen a savior, and he wanted to persuade the master chief to help him drive away those "primitive people" who were fiddling with the control platform!
"Ah, another Returnee, great! You have to help me, quick, get rid of the primitive people who are wreaking havoc, they don't know what they're doing! "343 Spark of Evil turned to the Master Chief for help.
It's a pity that the Master Chief was completely confused about the situation at the scene at this time, and Captain Case next to him didn't say anything, so he, like the others persuaded by 343 Spark of Sin, made a look of helplessness.
"How can this be, you, stop! The 343 spark of sin looked at the master officer, who was very good from the genetic level of the "descendant of the forerunner", and ignored himself, and flew to Shen Chao's side angrily to find him to theorize, its intelligence was very high, and it could naturally be seen that Shen Chao was the command core of everyone on the scene. Shen Chao saw 343 sparks of sin calling himself, so he stopped with interest. He also wanted to take this opportunity to see what the 343 Spark of Evil really looked like.
According to the table in the plot of the Halo series, 343 Spark of Evil is a mixture of good and evil, full of contradictions and struggles, as an AI, it has great autonomy and adaptability, but as an intelligent creature, his fate is sad.
According to Shen Chao's original plan, if possible, they would "capture" the spark of 343 sins and try to awaken his inner sealed memory as an ancient human. If they can do this, it will be very beneficial for them to excavate the remains of ancient humans and even the aura plane in the future.
This is also why Shen Chao stopped so obediently, he was very interested in what 343 Sin Spark was going to say next. (To be continued......)
PS: First of all, thank you for the monthly pass of "Can't See, Ying Yiyun" and the reward of "Valky, Ying Yiyun, I'm Xingmeng Yuqi", I still have something to do this afternoon, so this chapter was sent out early