Chapter 536: Leaving the Ring
After finding the site, the expedition covered up the previous excavation site, disguising it as it was before the excavation. This disguise succeeded in fooling the Covenant infantry who had searched nearby, but 343 Spark of Evil saw the qiē through a ringed guardian machine and rushed over to intervene as quickly as possible.
Before it arrived, Hargrave led the research team to begin studying the big thing in front of him. The attempt is to find out if there is any unexpected danger associated with removing the supercomputer. And just as they tried to transport the giant supercomputer away, 343 Sparks of Evil came out of nowhere and flew to their side to interfere with their actions.
"Stop, you vulgar primitives, this is impossible, you can't get here, this is the control center of the ring belt, if you destroy it, the ring belt will get out of control, and eventually the ring belt will be destroyed and you yourself will ......"
343 Spark of Evil was already out of anger at this time, shouting and shaking up and down to show his protest, although he didn't quite understand how Shen Chao quickly appeared in the core area of this ring, but his subroutine had already begun to provide a large number of violent boxes.
For example, he called all the guardians on the ring to come and deal with everyone in front of him by force. It's just that 343 Sin Spark, who still has a strange affinity for "ancient humans", has not chosen to do so for the time being.
"As the guardian here, you must know that no matter what you do, this ring will disappear one day, and you must also know that after that, the ark will create a new ring belt to replace this damaged ......" Shen Chao replied in an unhurried tone.
"This, how do you know! That's impossible. This kind of information is not stored in any number of jù libraries on the ring belt! 343 Spark of Evil became even more nervous when he heard Shen Chao tell such an important secret as "Ark".
You must know that this kind of information is only known to the AI of the ring guide like him, and he will never leak this kind of information under the coercion of external forces. Shen Chao can say this kind of thing, in his opinion, it means that the other party may have stolen his data library information through unknown technical means.
If this is the case, the safety of the ark could be threatened by "ancient humans", in that case. He had only one choice! Thinking of this, the intelligence core of 343 Spark of Evil immediately entered a forced battle mode, making it his primary goal to destroy everyone in front of him.
This is a restraint mechanism imposed by the Precursor when transforming his intelligence, once someone threatens the integrity of the Ring and the Ark, no matter who it is, the battle mode will automatically turn on, taking over the body control of 343 Spark of Sin, and the threat will be eliminated before returning to normal.
This is the case now, and the 343 spark of sin concentrates its energy on its own big eyeballs on the one hand. Quickly turning it into a small-caliber particle beam cannon, on the other hand, he issued an order to summon all the Guardian Machines to come and help destroy the primitives here.
In the original game's Gen 3 plot, Master Chief and Sergeant Johnson are attacked by such a sudden frenzy of 343 Spark of Sin, when they are about to destroy the small ark that Miè used to make the ring.
And this is still on the premise that they were recognized by 343 Sparks of Sin as the descendants of the Precursors, but Shen Chao was recognized by him as the ancient enemy of the Precursors, "Ancient Humans", so as soon as he showed the threat of the other boat, 343 Sparks of Sin immediately entered the state of battle. Ready to fire.
This should have been a dangerous scenario, the only problem is. Shen Chao had actually been ready to deal with the violent 343 Spark of Evil for a long time, in fact, he just said those irritating words specifically to provoke the spark of 343.
After previous observations and analysis of the Forerunner's artificial intelligence, the expedition's AI experts concluded that 343 Spark of Evil could restore its original consciousness as an "ancient human". The premise is that it requires a lot of external stimulation and the transformation of his intelligent core.
Considering that there are many other precursor and ancient human relics to be excavated, 343 Spark of Sin can regain its consciousness as an "ancient human". Then he can help far more than being a guide of the ring.
Therefore, Shen Chao tried to provoke him on such an occasion, but he didn't expect the effect to be so obvious. Not long after he finished speaking, the large eyeballs of 343 Spark of Evil fired a beam of particles in his direction.
Fortunately, Shen Chao's speed was very fast, and he avoided the first blow with a side flash. Just as he was about to jump up and pull down the 343 spark of evil that was flying upwards and grab it, a powerful dark energy field that had never been seen before suddenly attacked.
This dark energy field is extremely powerful, if it is said that the ability on the battlefield in normal times is like a breeze when they make moves. This burst of dark energy field was like a wave of the ocean, and in an instant, the spark of 343 Evil whose shell was harder than a tank was crumpled into a ball, like a can that had been stepped on.
Immediately, the large eyes of the 343 spark of sin were extinguished, and his crushed cylindrical body fell straight out of the air. Shen Chao looked around in confusion, only to find that he had just lowered his arm not far from him, and it was obvious that the powerful ability field just now was from her hand.
"Alice? Shen Chao still didn't dare to ask in disbelief, although Alice was one of the most powerful abilities in the expedition, he was very sure that the other party was definitely not strong enough to be so rebellious before.
The dark energy field just now was definitely not emitted after preparation, and if it were, he wouldn't be surprised, after all, he had also seen the scene where a powerful powerhouse crumpled a tank into a ball of scrap metal with a big move when he was fully prepared.
The strength of the dark energy field just now is that it was the result of an instantaneous reaction by Alice, but it achieved the destructive effect of a carefully prepared "singularity", in that less than 0.1 seconds of preparation time, it was not enough for normal people to blink, and that little time should only form a very weak dark energy field.
Just like a martial artist who takes time to prepare for a "perfect hit" by mobilizing his body's muscle groups, an ability is powerful, but it is not possible to mobilize all of his ability reserves in an instant.
According to the reaction time window, the battle had just begun when Alice made her move just now, and the dark energy field she could control at that moment must be a small fraction of the total amount she could control, just like an ordinary person hooking his little finger was only a drop in the bucket to mobilize the strength of his whole body.
It's just that this is so powerful, so how strong is Alice's dark energy mobilization ability now? When did you suddenly become so strong? These questions flooded into his mind for a moment.
As if recognizing the question he was about to ask, Alice, who had just made a move, looked away from his questioning eyes. Before Shen Chao could say his doubts, a warning sound came.
"Found a large number of Guardians, they opened fire......" The team guarding the entrance to the perimeter reported eagerly, followed by a dense exchange of fire.
Under the sudden pressure of the battle, Shen Chao temporarily put aside his doubts, on the one hand, he ordered Hargrave to quickly dismantle and transport their "goods" away, and on the other hand, he quickly opened a space-time door and mobilized a large number of unmanned troops to take over the outer defense line.
As the number of Guardian Machines attacking from the perimeter gradually increased, hundreds of spherical drones were mobilized to defend them, and their battle with the Guardian Machines of the Ring Belt quickly attracted the attention of the Covenant's ground forces.
Bands of Covenant troops gathered near the entrance to the cave to watch the battle between the Guardians and the unidentified Machined troops. Suddenly, a boar beast in one of the troops that had just arrived recognized the spherical drones.
"That's... That's a human weapon......" the boar beast shouted loudly to the elite clan commander of his squad. This boar beast is a survivor on the planet Reach. Timid, he was unlucky enough to encounter an expedition team while following his original team on the surface of the Reach.
His team was wiped out by the expedition, and he was the only one who escaped by pretending to be dead, and saw the appearance of the expedition members who cleaned the battlefield and collected Covenant equipment. Although he hadn't seen anyone's face, he could still recognize the human appearance.
Later, the boar beast was not easy to escape, found other Covenant troops, and was eventually assigned to this new Covenant team. He never imagined that in just one day, he would see these things again in action, which impressed him.
After learning that this was a human unmanned device and fighting the Ring Guardian Machine, the commander of the Covenant Marine Force on the front line immediately ordered to join in to help. Under the orders of the elite commander, the Covenant troops present immediately joined in and gathered fire towards the spherical drones they could see.
Their addition upset the fledgling balance of battle, helping the Belt Guardians advance the line into the hole, and after the Covenant Commander on the scene reported the latest situation on the front line to the still messy command department in the fleet, many captains sent their elite troops to help.
The addition of these new forces further complicates the battle situation. Thankfully, Hargrave had already guided the mechsapper team through the dismantling of the equipment before the battle could get any worse.
The moment the supercomputer that controls all the main equipment in the ring belt is dismantled, most of the systems on the ring belt fall silent, and the shiny lines on the outer ring of the ring immediately fall into darkness, and in the original plot, these glowing lines lasted until the last moment of the destruction of the ring belt. (To be continued......)