Chapter 446: Hello, Commander
At the same time as Todd and the others went back through the space-time gate, the team members outside the warehouse also opened the levitation device under the warehouse, so that the entire warehouse box part that had been deformed was suspended, and the entire warehouse box rose about 3 meters in place.
After the box floated up, the people nearby all stepped back and gave way under Shen Chao's order. And Shen Chao commanded the truck carrying the space-time door stabilizer to drive quickly along the direction of the box. It only took more than ten seconds for this huge space-time door to "swallow" the entire long warehouse in front of it under the delivery of the truck!
Its space-time portal successfully transported the entire warehouse to the heart of the encirclement on the other side. Since there was no levitation device in the desert on the other side of the space-time gate, the entire warehouse box that was sent over fell to the ground like a lame giant.
From the perspective of the warehouse, the whole process is even more bizarre. Sister Xue and his team first saw a mysterious dark curtain quickly sweep across the room they were in, and then there was a brief sense of fall that followed.
Then the whole warehouse was heavily handsome to the ground. After they got up, Sister Xue hurriedly asked everyone to find a good bunker and hide. As soon as they had found their own cover, there was a strange vibration outside, accompanied by a lot of noise.
Soon, as the noise increased, a large hole was smashed into the box to their left. It turned out to be a Titan Atlas-class mecha with a large demolition tool, and used a plasma cutter in his hand to make a large hole in the metal wall.
Before Sister Xue could decide whether to fire at this strange mecha, another big hole was cut in the wall on the other side by another mecha. This was followed by more and more large holes appearing in the walls on both sides.
These mechs have sliced the nearby walls apart. But none of them carried weapons, let alone tried to attack Sister Xue and them in the warehouse, and after one of the walls was basically completely demolished, these mechs with demolition tools retreated one after another. Immediately after, more than a dozen heavily armed expedition members rushed in through the gaps that had broken on both sides, and Shen Chao was in the middle of them.
"Welcome to my refuge, Commander......" he announced loudly with open arms as soon as he entered.
"Oh, oops, I didn't expect this to happen......" Xia, who was hiding beside Sister Xue, saw Shen Chao's body tremble when she saw Shen Chao come in, and then muttered something in a low voice.
The last time she escaped, she was caught by Shen Chao. If it weren't for the fact that she had the bargaining chips in her hand at the time. I'm afraid I won't be able to escape at all. So she had some psychological shadows about Shen Chao's combat effectiveness.
"Come out, Shepard, I know why you're here, and I know you don't want to fight my people. Otherwise, we wouldn't have the conversation we have now......" Shen Chao persuaded. He saw Todd outside just now that they were okay and knew that the two sides were not fighting. So the tone is a lot more relaxed.
If Sister Xue came with hostility towards him, it would be impossible for the two sides to still not exchange fire, so Shen Chao was very sure that Sister Xue would also listen to his persuasion at this time. Their relationship is definitely not an enemy, if not a friend.
"Maybe I'm just waiting for you, the mastermind behind the scenes, to come out and fight again, right, Shadow Broker?" Sister Xue finally walked out of the bunker, but her weapon was still pointed at Shen Chao, and her action made the team members next to Shen Chao raise their weapons again.
"Oh, I almost forgot if you didn't mention it. That's right, I worked as a shadow agent for a while. But I'm pretty sure I've helped you many times, directly and indirectly, and saved your life once, before and after, so what do you have to complain about? ”
Shen Chao admitted while motioning to the team members around him to lower their guns. Don't say whether Sister Xue will really shoot, even if she shoots, Shen Chao has absolute confidence to avoid her first few shots and retreat to a safe position.
"Should these words make me believe you?" Maybe you should say something I don't know, such as your true identity......" Sister Xue was a little surprised that Shen Chao would so simply admit that she was a shadow agent, she was just talking when she questioned Shen Chao was a shadow agent just now.
"Alright, Shepard. I know you may be a little resentful, but if you're really here to fight, you can't just bring a few people with you. As for my true identity, you can't expect to be forced out at gunpoint, can you? ”
Shen Chao slowly walked over and persuaded him, seeing that Shen Chao dared to approach without taking any weapons, Sister Xue finally believed that he was not hostile, put down her gun, and asked her teammates behind her to put down their guns and appear.
"Lex, Garas, Tari...... Welcome......" Shen Chao greeted them one by one, shaking hands or hugging them as if he were entertaining old friends.
: Wait, Ms. Etokatsu, please stay, you still owe me a passenger ship! Shen Chao suddenly turned his head to look at a hole, where a very vague shadow was moving towards the hole. Immediately after receiving his instructions, two members of the expedition rushed over to seize the shadow. After the optical camouflage fails, a frightened Kasumi appears.
"Shepard, please don't let him take me away......" After being caught, Xia hurriedly asked Sister Xue for help, she knew that if no one saved her, she was afraid that she would have to sit in prison or something worse would happen.
"Wait, what did she do, why did you arrest her?" Is it just because she ran away from you? Sister Xue stopped Shen Chao and asked.
"Oh, did she tell you how she escaped?" Shen Chao asked rhetorically, and Sister Xue's reaction also confirmed his conjecture.
"Let me summarize, she kidnapped a human passenger before the passenger ship departed, stole the identity of the other party and boarded the ship I arranged to go to the shelter, on board, she stole a large number of passengers' precious belongings, and when she tried to escape, she was caught and let us go, she did not hesitate to remotely overload the power core of the passenger ship!" If I hadn't evacuated in time after I let her go, the entire ship would have died in a big explosion......" Shen Chao recalled the damage caused by Xia's last escape, objectively speaking, Xia's escape from Yan Zòng affected the execution of his "bunker plan".
"And what are you going to do with her?" Sister Xue asked.
"If you had asked me a month ago, I would have shot her right away, but now, I prefer to hand her over to the passengers who were almost killed by her, who have settled here, and I'm pretty sure there will be victims among them who will be willing to testify against her......"
"And what if I intercede for her?" I may also need her skills......" Obviously, Sister Xue didn't want Shen Chao to take her prisoner and helper directly.
"For your sake, yes. But you will be jointly and severally liable for her actions thereafter. Shen Chao thought about it and agreed to Sister Xue's request. They need mutual trust and dialogue now, and selling face to Sister Xue will help him explain later.
After solving the historical problem about Xia, the mutual trust between the two sides was greatly enhanced, and Shen Chao took these "guests" of his out of the scattered warehouse that had been dismantled and came to the desert outside.
As soon as they walked out of the warehouse, they could clearly see the encirclement in the distance. Nearly 100 hammerhead chariots and their infantry formed a ring of deep positions on the ground. In the sky, there were several squadrons of helicopter gunships cruising, and there were a large number of humanoid mechs watching nearby.
"Is this ambush position well chosen, prepared for me?" Sister Xue asked. Seeing the situation outside, she knew why Shen Chao was so confident to talk to her before. She wondered how Shen Chao could pull up such a private army without leaking a little rumor.
Looking at the firepower arrangement of the defensive circle in the distance, this is definitely a regular armed force, and according to her experience, a regular armed force of this size cannot have no reputation at all, especially when it is associated with a ghost of the Divine Castle, it will not be unknown.
"This blocking position is for hostile intruders, you're not hostile, are you?" Shen Chao pushed the question back. The atmosphere was a little awkward, so both decided not to lead to the topic.
"Where are we now, and what's going on with that portal?" Sister Xue asked these questions that Shen Chao had heard for a long time, just like anyone who had experienced time travel for the first time.
"You need a lot of additional background information to understand this. Come on, go out for a walk with me, and I will explain your doubts one by one......" Shen Chao finally decided to take some time and explain the current situation to Sister Xue step by step.
"You have to at least tell me what planet this is, right?" Seeing the big desert and the pure blue sky outside, Sister Xue, who took off her helmet, was a little confused. The planet they were on was terrestrial, but it didn't have an atmosphere.
She had been mentally prepared for being teleported to another planet before she came, but this planet was obviously habitable, and if she had read the air composition detection number correctly, it was basically the same as Earth, which made her very puzzled.
"If I said now that this is the earth, would you believe it?" Shen Chao replied in a rather serious tone. Sister Xue saw that he answered so seriously, and hurriedly scanned the image of the sky with the star map recognition tool that came with the universal tool.
Although it is daytime and the stars are not visible to the naked eye, in fact, this is only because the ambient light of the sun is too strong, and the light sensor module on the universal tool can still distinguish faint stars and use them for positioning as it does at night. After scanning, Sister Xue's universal tool spit out the results, and the result was as Shen Chao said, this is the earth!
"No, it's impossible, how did you ......" Sister Xue found that she was actually on Earth and suddenly became a little incoherent.
"It's a long story, Shepard. I promise, if you follow me around, there will be a reasonable explanation for all these strange phenomena, the only question is, are you ready to accept the truth? Shen Chao said and summoned a shuttle to them and invited Sister Xue and them to follow. (To be continued......)
PS: First choice thanks to today's reward of "valky" children's shoes, these two days due to the end of the holiday, the pace of updates is slow, please understand.