Chapter 507: The Last Night of Zhiyuanxing
After delivering the Covenant CSO-class supercarrier known as "The Long Night" to the intended location, they were only halfway done. There are still tens of thousands of Covenant soldiers in the hull that need to be cleaned up and imprisoned, and there are still many in the cabins throughout the hull that are in a state of fierce fighting.
According to their optimistic estimates, it will take as little as 2 days to clean all the ship's cabins, and it may even take up to a week if it is slow. After all, none of the Covenant forces on board are fools, and they should soon find that their enemies are significantly stronger than them.
With intelligence, patience, and perseverance, these Covenant soldiers could hide in their hidden positions on the ship and wait for an opportunity to attack the lone expedition personnel. To avoid this, they need to take a lot of precautions.
But now, he needed to take some time to explain what had happened to the incredulous Noble6 beside him. Of course, he didn't want to reveal his true identity at this time, not to mention whether the other party would believe him, even if he did, it was estimated that there would be no good reaction.
Although the Spartan warrior in front of him seems to be very valuable for recruitment, the UNSC behind him is suspected to be a comic organization. Now it is difficult to recruit the other party by telling them their true identity, and they will also leak their savings to the UNSC, which is not conducive to their follow-up plans.
Therefore, Shen Chao lied to his candidate recruitment target relatively rarely, and the explanation he gave was that they had just been teleported to a remote Star Covenant and could not find the galaxy, and they were a new civilization developed by a former colonial government, and due to some historical problems with the UNSC, they severed ties with the UNSC after the war began......
Because of the countless extraterrestrial colonies that UNSC has lost, the credibility of this lie is so high that it took them some time to explain it. During this time, the people cleaned up the bodies in Cambridge.
Eventually, Noble6 believed his claims. From his point of view, he didn't have much reason to question Shen Chao's statement, although he felt that what had just happened didn't look like the spatial jump he knew. However, he is not a scientist specializing in leap theory. So he couldn't see what was wrong with Guò.
"I'll admit, I didn't believe you could take the ship, but what now? The ship looks completely unoperable! Noble6 asked. Shen Chao has already said that only after this supercarrier is completely occupied and renovated will he further help UNSC deal with the Star Alliance.
"My guys will empty the ship and hack the operating system, which of course can take two weeks or more. When we're done with that, we'll take it with us to continue the fight against the Covenant, and if the UNSC is willing to make compromises, we'll help you defend the Earth directly. Shen Chao continued to throw out empty checks, although he did have the intention of participating in the battle to defend the earth in this plane. But the purpose is not to help the UNSC or to save civilians or anything.
"We're not there yet...... Noble6 seems reluctant to believe that the Battle of Reach will be lost and humanity will be beaten to its home planet, Earth. He also saw the appearance of the Star Alliance Vanguard Fleet rushing to the battlefield before, but he was still looking forward to the UNSC battle group arriving in time to turn the tide of the battle.
"You'll get there, second lieutenant. Maybe you are as reluctant to admit it as everyone else, but the facts are the facts, you are losing this war, and Zhiyuan Star is destined to be ruined by the Star Alliance. And in a few months, the flames of war will burn to the earth! Shen Chao continues to sing the praises of the future of UNSC.
"Even if that's true, we're not going to surrender without a fight. Send us back. We still have a war to win......" Noble6 finally decided to ask Shen Chao to send him back to the Zhiyuan Star Battlefield, although Shen Chao had already expressed his desire to let him stay here as a liaison officer.
Shen Chao was busy dealing with a lot of things at this time, so he didn't try to keep them anymore, but he insisted that the UNSC soldiers who came with them choose whether to follow them back to the battlefield or not.
In the end, Noble Squad's No. 5 and No. 6 were both sent back to the Reach Star battlefield, but many of the Marines and ODST soldiers who came with them chose to stay.
No one is stupid. A strategic location like Zhiyuan can be discovered and fought by the Star Alliance, which means that future wars will only be more brutal and bloody, and as a small soldier, these people have little chance of surviving in future wars, and they themselves know this.
Before. Due to the Covenant's approach, they had no choice whether or not to participate in the battle. But now, they have a choice, although none of them have ever heard of the sudden emergence of human forces before today, but many of them prefer to follow this obviously higher level of technology of the human forces together, rather than return to the battlefield of the Reach Star that is dead.
Those who were willing to go back were all brought back by Shen Chao to the Covenant light cruiser they had captured earlier. Shen Chao had his engineering unit attach a temporary Element Zero core to the light cruiser and return the ship to the system where Zhiyuan was located.
After that, Shen Chao said goodbye to these guys and evacuated his own people and equipment. As they left, the expedition team carefully inspected the entire ship, returning all important equipment, including the Mass Effect core, to the other side of the portal. They were left with only a bunch of weapons and equipment and a large shipload of Covenant prisoners to serve as evidence of their mission.
After returning to the system where Reach was located, it took some time for the two Spartan warriors, along with a small number of UNSC soldiers around them, to contact their superiors. They were then evacuated to nearby systems for inspection and other units to take over their captured ships and prisoners of war.
The UNSC command did not expect to receive news from them, because they had lost contact with the two Spartan warriors and the other soldiers accompanying them before the Covenant supercarrier disappeared.
In the eyes of the command, their mission to destroy the Covenant aircraft carrier should have failed. But after connecting with the two Spartan warriors, the command department unexpectedly found that things were quite different from what they had suspected.
Both Spartan warriors and their entourage stated that they had received assistance from the armed forces of an unknown former colony during the operation, and that they had cooperated with each other to capture the Covenant's supercarrier.
Of course, such a fantasy and nonsensical story was not trusted by the command, but in addition to their verbal evidence, there were nearly a thousand Star Covenant prisoners in the Covenant light cruiser they drove back, and some of them who could speak human language quickly gave the same story, which forced the command to re-examine the authenticity of this story.
Of course, with the tension on the front, they did not have time to investigate its authenticity. So this "good news" was blocked as soon as possible. A few hours later, ONI agents followed the information to the door to interrogate the two Spartan warriors about the mysterious force they had mentioned, but by this time, the members of the two Noble teams had returned to the surface battlefield of Reach.
Although the UNSC's command here at Zhiyuan also had a lot of interest in what was happening on the supercarrier, the tense battle situation on the ground at this time did not allow them to spend much time interrogating the two valuable Spartan warriors.
After completing the briefing, the two Spartan warriors returned to the system of Reach with a small fleet and joined the operation to save civilians on the surface. At this time, although the Star Covenant fleet has an absolute advantage, their main goal is obviously to seize this habitable planet.
For this purpose, except for those places where the UNSC ground forces are concentrated, they have not tried to "burn glass" to destroy the biosphere on the surface of the miè, on the other hand, the UNSC, before the Grand Fleet arrives, of course, they can't go head-on with the Star Alliance fleet, but small rescue operations can still be carried out.
They can still send a small number of ships to lure the attention of the Covenant fleet, and some other forces will participate in the operation on the surface to reduce the pressure on the surface. The ultimate goal is to get as many civilians as possible out before the battle between the two fleets comes.
At this time, Noble6 and George, who had returned to the surface of Zhiyuanxing, saw the flames of war, and the peaceful and beautiful Zhiyuanxing was now in a sea of fire. At this time, the Covenant's landing ships and ground forces were already all over the world's major human settlements, fighting with the UNSC's forces for the land under their feet inch by inch.
Noble6 and George traveled around a city on the surface of the planet to find their team, and when they met, it was already the middle of the night, and they shared what they had seen with their teammates, and naturally they received an incredible sound.
However, their teammates were also suspicious of what happened to them, after all, there were too many parts of the whole thing that were beyond common sense. For example, the "portal" that appeared out of thin air, a large number of highly intelligent humanoid fighters......
Even to them living in the 25th century, these things sound more like they come from science fiction than what really exists in life. Since the sound of firefighting in the city outside was already very sparse, the Noble team that had finally gathered together seized this relaxing moment to relax.
George, the big man, also took the opportunity to tell a few small jokes, complaining about his "adventure" before the 6th! None of them knew that according to the original plot, tonight would be the last night before Zhiyuan Star was destroyed.
In the original plot, they should now be saddened by the "sacrifice" of George, and are about to lose another member in an atmosphere of grief. And now, when everything has been changed, they are enjoying a rare moment of tranquility in a joyful atmosphere. (To be continued......)
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