Chapter 501: Applause and Regret

At a distance of almost 5 kilometers in the air, several shuttles of the expedition were hovering in different airspace, watching the battle from all angles. A group of spectators, including Shen Chao, were all impressed by the amazing battle table of the Master Chief just now, and many other squads distributed in other corners of the planet also saw the live broadcast through Guò communication. After watching this wonderful battle, quite a few people even began to applaud in the communication channel.

"Well, man, have you finally found a guy who predicts to catch up with you, do you think you can do what he just did?" Custer teased as he leaned on the back of Shen Chao's chair behind the cockpit.

The part of the cockpit that should have been a screen is now a huge foil display that covers almost the entire cockpit. The entire cockpit view of the outside world is restored to this huge film display with real-time images captured by external sensors.

The advantage of this is that it avoids problems such as structural strength loss and thermal radiation scattering caused by installing windows, and it is more convenient to display various HUDs and numbers on the film display, and can realize one-click execution of many complex operations.

For example, in their current display mode, Alice's half of the monitor is still the standard driving mode exterior restoration image and HUD, while Shen Chao's half is showing a magnified image of the ground in the distance, and the center of the image is naturally the master officer who has just fought a beautiful battle.

At this time, the scenery outside is still very good, and if you don't look at the smoke and stumps everywhere on the ground, you can also enjoy the burning clouds and the sky that is turning red before sunset.

"If I were to limit my speed and strength to his level of speed, I might not be able to do it......" Shen Chao smiled bitterly and admitted very honestly that he was afraid that he might not be able to express the kind of divine prediction that the Master Chief had just made. Of course, he's talking about restricting him to the strength and speed of Master Chief!

The current Shen Chao does not need to wear a nanosuit and has the combined strength of almost 20 strong adults, which in itself has reached and surpassed the Master Chief wearing the Thor Hammer. Combined with his Nanosuit, which had been upgraded to Gen 6 by Hargrave, he could easily outpace the Master Chief wearing Thor's Hammer in terms of speed and strength.

In fact, the nanosuits worn by every full member of the expedition now could raise their strength and speed to the level that the Master Chief had just shown. But even so, in their opinion, the appearance of the master chief is extremely difficult.

Combat effectiveness is not only a simple superposition of strength and speed, but also a competition of body control ability and brain power. Master Chief Biao's table xiàn just now is a perfect demonstration of this concept. Strength, speed, and god-like prediction were only part of the equation, not the decisive factor.

The strength of the Master Chief is reflected in his ability to accurately estimate the battle situation and plan quickly and accurately. From the moment the Master Chief took the initiative to step into the battlefield just now. The pace of the whole battle was under his control. Whether it's the initial lure of the enemy to attack or the later pseudo. Suicide attacks were all carried by him, taking the initiative to lead the Covenant infantry by the nose.

Such an expression means that he has a very clear and even prescient understanding of his own abilities and those of his enemies. Just as they were about to further follow up on the actions behind the Master Chief, Team 102 sent an early warning signal, which roughly meant that a key plot point was approaching and Shen Chao needed to make an important decision.

The plot points they reported were naturally related to the Noble team, and after receiving their early warning, Shen Chao immediately ordered all the teams on the surface to end their ground reconnaissance, leave some beacons for spectators, and then quickly evacuate the surface of the planet.

In less than 5 minutes, an entire group of expedition members evacuated the surface of Zhiyuan. But they didn't go far. With the exception of a small group that withdrew to the Pegasus battle group to prepare for the next mission, the others were still in the nearby star field to prepare for the battle.

Returning to the perspective of the Noble team, they are back at the bayonet base where they fought before, and are nervously preparing for the attack. Although they received a small gift from the expedition, their previous plans did not change.

Their plan is still to use the bayonet base's aerospace fighters to put them in orbit, and then find a way to destroy the Covenant supercarrier that is blocking the sky with the help of friendly forces. Compared with the Star Alliance, UNSC's aerospace technology is really underdeveloped.

Although they also have aerospace fighters that can be directly out of the atmosphere, they need to make a series of pre-launch preparations to get them into orbit. For example, hang a large auxiliary fuel tank. Equipped with a hierarchical thruster with huge thrust. After doing this, their drivers had to wait at the launch stand. Wait for ground crew to refill with cooled liquid fuel.

In contrast, the Covenant's forces are much easier to fly around in and out of the atmosphere. The Covenant's troop carriers and many small and medium-sized vehicles can travel to and from the atmospheres of most planets without barriers, thanks to their more advanced fuel cell technology and engine propulsion technology.

After the tedious preparations before liftoff, Noble Squad's No. 5 and No. 6 piloted a space fighter and began to take off. One of them has a pilot's license, and the other is an all-round Phase 2 fighter who is the best candidate for this particular mission.

After a slow exit from the atmosphere. They certainly didn't immediately go to the Covenant's supercarrier. Not to mention how strong the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower was, the number of high-level elites of the supercarrier and other elite soldiers of the Star Covenant alone was enough to overwhelm them in an instant.

Their plan was to unite a small UNSC warship in the hemisphere that had not yet been destroyed and an entire fleet to try to surprise and land an Covenant small cruiser, using the small cruiser as a springboard to attack the Covenant supercarrier.

Their plan was not going well, because at this time the Covenant had a considerable advantage in space, and the UNSC's Grand Fleet had not yet arrived. This means that no matter what situation they encounter, they will have to deal with it on their own. And without support from the rear.

In the vicinity of a destroyed UNSC near-orbit military space station, they encountered a small group of Covenant space fighters, and after a fierce battle, they finally defeated this batch of Covenant fighters with the cooperation of friendly forces, and hurried to find the supplementary ammunition they needed in the still intact cabin on the space station, and connected with their cooperative forces. But at this time, the situation on the ground has entered a new stage.

Huge explosion clouds appeared on the surface of Zhiyuanxing, each with an equivalent of more than 50 million tons, and the largest probably has an equivalent of more than 40,000 tons. Such a terrifying explosion swept over a large area of the surface in a very short time, including the bayonet base that they had not been away for a long time.

"Contritumestcormeum......" George, who was picking up equipment on the space station, said this Latin phrase after seeing the tragedy below, which roughly translates to "My heart is broken!" ”。

For this hunky Spartan warrior, Zhiyuan Star is like his second home, and he knows that there are many Spartans like him on the ground fighting bravely, and he doesn't know how many of his brothers and sisters have been killed by this explosion!

Seeing a large area of land on the surface of the earth turn into ruins, a strong sense of sadness hit his nerves one after another. Even their squad, the AI, noticed his heart rate and quickly asked him how he was.

"Enlarge the surface image of the area at coordinates 19/22......" George asked, enduring his grief, as Dr. Halsey was located at the bayonet base and Dr. Halsey, who had been his "mother" throughout his upbringing.

As a result, the enlarged image confirmed his worst guess, that there could be no survivors on the surface of the bayonet base after being directly hit by a Covenant nuclear weapon! People say that Spartan warriors are perfect fighters, but George feels like he has the urge to cry at this point.

The boy has tears and doesn't flick, but he hasn't reached the sad place! This sentence should be able to describe George's current feelings very well. He had already lost many of his brothers and sisters in the long war, and now, it seems, his "mother" was also killed.

Of course, years of rigorous training and long war trials allowed him to resist the emotional urge and quickly focus on the task at hand. After quickly completing their preparations, they rushed to their target, a small Covenant cruiser, along with the frigate Savannah that was accompanying their operation.

The core of the jump engine they were going to use to destroy the Covenant supercarrier came from the USS Savannah. After a catch-up and a difficult space battle, most of the friendly units that cooperated with them died on the way, and only a small group of Marines rushed with them on the USS Pelican troop transport to the small airport of the small Covenant cruiser.

Even most of these men were quickly killed and wounded by the Covenant Marines inside the cruiser. Groups of elites rushed to their small airport, and not only were they outnumbered, but they couldn't trigger the failure of the jump engine in advance and run away, because then they could only destroy this small Covenant cruiser, and they couldn't turn the tide of the space battle outside.

Under the onslaught of the elites, they almost couldn't hold it out a few times in a matter of minutes. But fortunately, although their opponents were fierce, they didn't rush all of them, and after surviving the first two minutes, their pressure suddenly decreased, and the rest of the ship suddenly resounded with fierce firefights! (To be continued......)

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I wasn't going to change it tonight because I had a headache and wanted to go to bed early. But seeing the strong support of so many book friends, I still stubbornly coded this chapter, but it is estimated that there should only be one update tomorrow, because I have to go out tomorrow afternoon, and there will not be too much time to code.

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