At this time, the shipboard vi of the Budapest received a communication message from Normandy, and an officer of the communication group immediately reported it after seeing it, and transferred the communication to the control panel in front of Shen Chao.

"Budapest, please reply, Budapest, this is Normandy. Shen, is that you? Sister Xue's familiar voice and image soon appeared on the holographic display in front of Shen Chao.

At this time, she was fully armed, wearing armor and a helmet. It looks like it should be in the wheelhouse of Normandy, and the background behind it is quite dark, and sparks flash from time to time, and at a glance you can see that the Normandy has been badly damaged.

However, when Sister Xue spoke, it was almost the same as usual. There was no sense of nervousness at all. Judging by her appearance, Normandy may still be saved.

Seeing this, Shen Chao first delegated the command to Damien, let him be responsible for directing the battleship into the best firing position, and instructed him to pay attention to the command after the main gun and main gun were charged.

Shen Chao's order to him was this, if the Collector battleship made any abnormal movement after their battleship's main gun was fully charged, Damien should immediately order the main gun to fire and directly kill the opponent.

If there is no movement, he is responsible for arranging a cordon course, using the classic roller tactic to keep the main gun aimed at the mass effect core of the enemy ship while maintaining a safe distance and maneuvering.

At this time, they were only 50,000 kilometers away from the Collector battleship, and they were about to enter the range of the ship's secondary guns. As long as they get closer, they can let their main guns lock onto the opponent's mass effect core, and then completely hold the opponent's life and death in the palm of their hands.

After giving these orders, Shen Chao followed the communication from Sister Xue's side. A formal conversation began.

"It's me, Commander, how are you there?" Shen Chao first asked about the damage to the other party, after all, judging from the image here, there was a huge hole in the cabin behind the other party, and it was impossible to be fine.

"No, it's not good at all, the multi-deck is damaged, the main weapon is offline. The Mass Effect Core is also almost offline, but our damage should still be repairable, but we can't help you much right now. ”

Sister Xue sent the damage management report in Normandy to Shen Chao, and half of his crew had already left Normandy as an escape pod, and several engineers were among them. So it's very difficult for her to organize effective damage management in Normandy.

"I knew someone was saving. I'm not going to give the order to abandon ship! Sister Xue blamed herself in her heart, she wasn't even in the mood to ask Shen Chao why she was here.

"It's okay, the battle here has us. You put your crew together first, and we can watch the collectors......" Shen Chao said indifferently, as long as Sister Xue is fine. His original mission goal this time has actually been achieved.

Now Shen Chao was thinking about whether he should directly approach and take out the Collector battleship with another round of cannons, or try to capture the battleship completely. Speaking of which, the collector also has a lot of good things he needs.

He hadn't decided what to do in the end, because according to their pre-battle analysis, even if their rescue was smooth, the Collector Battleship would have a good chance of escaping before it was heavily damaged.

But for now. Their rescue had been significantly more successful than expected, and the Collector warship had been completely lying on its back, leaving them to ravage at will.

"By the way, I forgot to ask, who attacked us just now?" Sister Xue asked again in the communication channel, she suddenly remembered this question, just now they didn't understand who was attacking them, only knew that it should be a cruiser.

"It's the Collector's warship, and our attack just removed its Mass Effect core. It looks like it can't move now......"

Shen Chao briefly introduced the situation. And sent the photographs they took and the number of the opposing battleships to Normandy. After seeing these numbers, Sister Xue and the others were immediately shocked by the huge size of the other party.

"This is a cruiser? It's not much smaller than the overlord. Sister Xue complained after seeing the number, just looking at the volume, this collector destroyer is really at the same level as the overlord-class reaper, but the combat effectiveness is too far behind.

Comparison based on the first number of battles collected during the Battle of the Fortress. Shen Chao had already roughly estimated the offensive and defensive capabilities of the Overlord-level Reaper before.

If the Overlord-level Reaper is ambushed by them, the main cannon on the Budapest must be bombarded at least 6 times at full state to break the opponent's kinetic energy barrier. Instead of two rounds of shelling like now, the opponent will not be able to move.

It seems that the Reapers, too, are wary of their own civilized slaves, and do not provide them with any advanced protection technology.

"I received information before, according to my intelligence sources. Most likely, these guys are in the service of the reapers. Shen Chao was talking nonsense, he naturally couldn't tell his true source of information.

"Reaper." Then it is not surprising. Sister Xue believed it when she heard him say this, after all, the technical strength of the reapers, they had all seen the overlord, and the reapers also had reasons to want to kill her.

"By the way, inform Starlink that we need support. After Sister Xue finished complaining, she also remembered that she should inform the Star Alliance now, although such a large enemy warship can't run now, it's hard to say how many passengers it carries.

It is not surprising that the battleship has a crew of tens of thousands, at least a few hundred sailors, and this number is too much for both the mini marines in Normandy and the marines in a standard cruiser configuration like Budapest.

If they sent Marines aboard the enemy ships, it would be difficult to say whether they would be able to beat the Collectors on the enemy ships, not to mention that none of them had ever seen the Collectors, and no one could be sure what would happen.

The structure of the opponent's warship, what weapons it has, and the characteristics of the enemy are all unknown, and it is very likely that you will suffer unnecessary losses if you rush to board the ship.

"We should generate electricity together, but even if it is a qiē shun lì, I am afraid that it will take 4 to 5 days for the nearest Star Alliance battleship to arrive." So we need to be ready before then. Shen Chao thought about it and said.

Although he really wanted to enjoy the loot this time, he also remembered how big the space inside this battleship was, and it was still a bit too risky for more than a hundred fighters on their two warships to occupy it. He wasn't prepared to lose a single of his precious soldiers here.

"The conference room in Normandy was destroyed, and I couldn't contact the headquarters directly, only you sent it." Sister Xue said with some embarrassment.

The entire conference room on the Normandy was destroyed, and the quantum communication station inside was no exception, and they now basically only had the ability to communicate within the star system. Even the distress signal can't be sent far.

"Well, then, you drive Normandy to my position, and I can send engineers to help you with the damage, and you can bring the Marines to my ship." ”

"Together, we can report back to Hackett and discuss what to do next. Shen Chao continued. He did this considering that they would most likely have to board the Collector Battleship in a short time.

Shen Chao said that he still hoped to bring Sister Xue to do such a thing of reporting important information, for no other reason, or to distract the reaper. He didn't want to be too dazzling.

Even though the Mass Effect Core is offline, the Collectors are not just tied down, and there are still many potential means of self-detonation on their ships.

If they don't board the ship to investigate and intervene at short notice, the Collectors risk blowing up their ships, making them unable to capture their ships.

As for why report to Hackett first and not to Parliament? That's the point. Whether it is in the game's plot or Shen Chao's actual observations, Admiral Hackett is a reliable military leader within the Star Alliance. It's not like the periodic brain pumping of the Citadel Council.

After the Battle of the Divine Citadel and the incident of the Divine Citadel Tower's "forced palace", the highly meritorious Hackett was promoted to a higher position by the Star Alliance.

Now, this old man is not only the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Fleet, but also the commander-in-chief of the entire fleet of the Star Alliance Navy. There are many generals and believe in the threat of the Reapers. Able to send a fleet over to support them in a short time.

"Okay, wait for us. Sister Xue thought for a while and agreed to Shen Chao's plan, and she didn't need Shen Chao to remind her, she figured out why she only reported to Hackett.

After temporarily shutting down communications, she first sent a shuttle to pick up the crew members who had already disembarked from the guò escape pod, and after receiving all the crew members, she divided them into groups so that some of them stayed behind while the others prepared to board the Budapest in batches.

Half an hour later, after gathering all the crew, Normandy slowly drove to the vicinity of the Budapest, and two shuttles took Sister Xue and many of his crew through the last few hundred kilometers and boarded the flight deck at the bottom of Budapest.

Not only did she bring the whole crew of her own Marine Corps, but she also brought a lot of ordinary crew members with her, and the current situation in Normandy was very bad, with multiple systems damaged, and it was not suitable for too many people to stay there.

Especially for non-engineering majors, not being able to help can get in the way. Several engineers sent by Shen Chao also boarded the scarred Normandy at this time to help them repair the damaged system.

After Sister Xue's crew boarded the Budapest, Alice was in charge of greeting her with a team of soldiers and doctors, who were acquaintances after all.

After the meeting, the doctors first received all the wounded, wheeled them into the infirmary, and then arranged for the rest of the crew to rest in the free deck 6.

After all this, Alice arranged for Sister Xue and them to go to CIC to meet Shen Chao, and under Alice's leadership, they walked through the long flight deck, took the main elevator, and then took the Guò elevator to Deck 3.

On deck 3, they passed through a series of complex cabins before finally reaching the core of the battleship, the CIC Operations Command and Control Center.

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