Chapter 503: A Warrior's Choice
And the whole process of Shen Chao killing this Star Covenant captive was seen by the guest Noble6 and the Marines beside him! Seeing that his temporary ally was so powerful, Noble6 was even more confused. He only knew that the Spartans were the ultimate combat force of the UNSC. But I haven't heard of anyone who can blow the elite's head with one punch.
Obviously, the person in front of him was not a Spartan warrior, whether it was weaponry, combat style, or even attitude towards the Covenant, it was very different from the Spartans he had seen, due to the protracted war between the two sides, almost all humans were full of hatred for the Covenant.
And Shen Chao's expression just now seemed to have no personal opinion on the Star Alliance soldiers, he didn't seem to hate the main force of slaughtering humans like the elite at all, and he still didn't kill the first time after the other party resisted after being captured. These actions made the way Noble 6 looked at him change.
He had only guessed that the person in front of him might be some secret team of the UNSC or a high-tech non-rebel human force developed in some other distant colony, after all, after the outbreak of the war 20 years ago, the UNSC's control of zhì star sector has been decreasing day by day, and some of the colonies that have not joined the rebel army have finally chosen to cut off contact with the UNSC to protect themselves.
Some of these forces were eventually discovered by the Covenant and eventually defected to the UNSC, while others have not been heard from since. Some of them must have been discovered and completely eliminated by the Covenant. But it is also believed that some of them survived.
There are many rumors within the UNSC that some of these faraway colonies, which have broken away from UNSC control, have developed a new human civilization that relies on the machine-based people. The large number of machine troops brought by Shen Chao and the various high-tech weapons given to them can provide arguments for this "reasonable" conjecture.
But now, Noble6 feels that his conjecture may be wrong. No matter how far away the colonies are from war, they are unlikely to be ignorant of the Covenant's brutality, and in the course of 20 years of war, the Covenant has slaughtered civilians in countless human colonies.
The total number of casualties in the war has exceeded 20 billion, and such casualties are enough to make the people of any region regard the Covenant as an enemy. But Shen Chao and the people around him didn't seem to have any emotional aversion to the Star Alliance.
By the time they left the area and finally reached the bridge, the members of the expedition had emptied Cambridge of all resistance. There is an elite corpse on the ground. However, they were not able to successfully capture the elite captain of the light cruiser, and the collection work did not go well.
"Captain, this elite captain committed suicide when we attacked, we intercepted the distress signal, but the navigation data has been destroyed, and most of the information in the database has also been deleted......" As soon as Shen Chao came in with the guests, a team leader leaned over and explained to him the battle situation just now.
Originally. The initial stages of their plan for a surprise occupation went smoothly. The Covenant's shipboard defense is not weak, but it is no match for their wave after wave of mech-human troops. But at the last moment of the assault went haywire.
After discovering that it was not feasible to continue to resist and abandon the ship and flee, the elite captain committed suicide with a gun. Fortunately, he did not have time to destroy the piloting system before he died, and the distress signal that he had tried to send out from the bridge was also intercepted by the expedition team.
Therefore, they can still get close to the Covenant supercarrier as they originally planned and their own plans. Of course, it's not the same as Noble's squad's plan. Their plan was not to destroy the supercarrier with a weaponized jump engine, but to take advantage of the opportunity to capture the megaship.
It would be very difficult for the UNSC to capture an Covenant ship. Capturing an Covenant supercarrier is an impossible task. But for expeditions that have made systematic preparations for boarding and combat, and who can continue to increase their troops through the gate of time and space, these goals are achievable.
Even if they can't capture the supercarrier in the end, they can at least get something valuable to them from the supercarrier, and after that, it's up to them to stay or blow it up. Thinking of this, Shen Chao gave Noble6, who came with him, a mention.
"Ensign, please inform your teammates. We're ready to capture that Covenant supercarrier and take it. Ask him to abandon his original plan to destroy the supercarrier. Shen Chao put forward this request that made the other party very difficult.
"It's impossible, I don't know how you managed to smuggle so many troops onto the Covenant's warships. But there are at least 100,000 Covenant infantry on that supercarrier, and you can't take it! ”
"I'll admit that capturing that carrier is a bit difficult for us, but it's not impossible to get on board and wreak havoc, or even catch their captain. The information that the captain of a Star Covenant supercarrier has must be useful to both of us! Shen Chao continued to try to fool him.
"I don't have the authority to make such a decision...... Noble 6 hurriedly contacted George, hoping to get orders from the rear. However, George, who remained at the small airport, said that he still could not contact the rear command and their captain Carter on the ground.
The reason for this is that all of their communication signals were jammed by the expedition. Shen Chao wanted to see how the real Spartan warriors would react to the expedition they had never met and how resilient they would be, without the intervention of the rear command.
"Why should we believe your word?" We're grateful for the help you've done so far, but you've refused to identify yourself, and your people have clearly never fought the Covenant before! We don't even know how you got up? Noble 6 questioned.
"You're very observant, second lieutenant. Before today, I really hadn't faced the Elite or any other Covenant troops. But my people and I have encountered aliens who are far more dangerous than the elites, and as for the secrecy of our identities, it is only a means for us to protect our own people. Hasn't the UNSC also been using the "Cole Agreement" to protect the coordinates of the earth? Shen Chao responded half-truthfully.
As he spoke, he opened a secondary control panel on the bridge and showed the Noble6 beside him the space-time gate he had set up in the small airport where they had landed, and the team of planes that kept drilling out of the space-time gate.
Of course, he didn't explain a space-time portal that connected to another universe, so, after seeing the images on the panel, Noble6 thought it was some kind of portal technology like anyone who saw a space-time portal for the first time and didn't know what it was.
"That's how we get on board, and that's why I'm confident that I'll hit the Covenant supercarrier." You are a Spartan warrior, and now is the time for you to make decisions on behalf of the UNSC. If we can wait for that supercarrier together, we may be able to carry out more in-depth military cooperation......" Shen Chao continued to persuade him.
The Spartan warriors, especially the Phase 3 warriors in front of him, generally had a higher rank than the Phase 2 warriors. This is to enable these UNSC's most elite fighters to seize the fighters on the complex and chaotic battlefield on the front line, and organize other UNSC troops to carry out "improvisational" combat operations.
Although he said that he had no power to decide, at this time, Noble 6 had already begun to carefully consider whether there was any part of his tactical options that could be "free to play".
As long as the results are achieved, the command of the UNSC usually does not care about the Spartan fighters changing the predetermined plan on the battlefield, of course, then the Spartan fighters who change the plan need to take full responsibility for the operation.
The opportunities and risks in front of him are very large, and Noble6 knows that whether he agrees or rejects Shen Chao's request, it will have a deep impact. But at this time, the Covenant supercarrier outside is getting closer and closer to them, and he must make a quick decision.
Faced with such a heavy decision, Noble 6 remembered some of the things he had done when he was first recruited as a child. Like most Spartan Warriors of Phase 3, he was a war orphan who died at a young age when both his parents died as a result of the Covenant's war.
Not long after he was taken away by ONI officers, he and some other children, who were no older than 10 years old, were taken on a military plane, and they were thrown off the plane from a high altitude with parachute bags on their backs.
The purpose of that training was to train them to be war orphans, and if someone was too scared to move, he would not be able to pull the parachute line and would eventually fall to his death. He still remembers the words of the instructor when he taught them how to pull an umbrella and kicked them off the cabin one by one.
"For humanity, for victory!" That's what their instructor said, and kicked him out of the cabin along with the other children. He and most of the other children conquered their fears and pulled the lines.
Later, after years of training, as a Spartan warrior, he also practiced this philosophy with his own life and blood. The current shape of the war is very clear, the UNSC has been carrying out a "strategic contraction", or "losing ground step by step"! That is, step by step away from the goal of "victory".
If this trend continues, the UNSC will inevitably lose the entire war and the future of humanity. This argument is no secret among the veterans, and right now, there is a human force of unknown origin willing to lend a hand, even if it is gullible enough to send them to court-martial, but given the options available, it does not seem to be a bad choice. It's even worth the risk. Thinking of this, Noble6 made his own decision. (Want to know more about Time Traveler's Expedition?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and never miss every update! (To be continued......)
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