The few remaining Covenant infantry turned the tide of battle and returned to the small Covenant ship that had come to pick them up in troop carriers. However, the bad luck of these Covenant fighters was that when the ship they were on was about to climb out of the atmosphere of this planet and run away, it was hit by a MAC cannon from a battleship sent by UNSC, and finally crashed nearly a hundred kilometers away.

"It's so beautiful, you say?" George, codenamed Noble5, stood on a chaotic battlefield, looking at the falling Covenant ship in the distance, and said to Noble6 beside him.

Unlike the rest of the squad, George was a Phase 2 Spartan Warrior. Not only does it look much more powerful in height and physique than the rest of the team, but it also has armor that doesn't look like the rest of the team.

The reason why he made such an exclamation at this time was because of the combination of multiple reasons. The first is that the battle they were involved in just now was quite dangerous, and the Covenant ground forces were far outnumbered.

Over the course of the battle, a group of high-ranking elites in the Covenant infantry nearly broke their defenses on several occasions. Despite this, they managed to survive the battle unscathed with the support of the base guards and pushed the enemy back.

Such a hearty battle and gratifying results gave him a sense of accomplishment that he had not seen for a long time, and the friendly battleship that had just hit the Covenant warship in the atmosphere with MAC guns was more like cheering for them, drawing a perfect end to the fierce battle they had just had.

It is because of the combination of these factors that George will be in a good mood to take the initiative to speak to the new members of their team. After most of the previous battle, he had accepted this new member as the new No. 6 member of their squad.

Just as they enjoyed their victory, their captain called them into the base. Dr. Halsey, the head of the research base, wanted to meet them. Halsey was one of the founders of the Spartan Project.

She was involved in the first and second phases of the Spartan project throughout the whole process, and grew up watching almost all the Spartan fighters in the second phase. After Project Sparta entered Phase III, she withdrew from follow-up studies. Joined ONI's archaeological and research programs.

Today, as the UNSC's extraterrestrial colonies are being destroyed one after another, Dr. Halsey is one of the few all-rounders among the dwindling number of scientists. As one of UNSC's most important scientific talents, the projects she is responsible for will not be simple.

If Yiqiē still follows the original plot, Noble's team will meet her again on a very different occasion in a few days after meeting her this time. Of course, this is not something that Team 102 will be concerned about at the moment.

At this time. Team 102 had almost arrived at the Covenant frigate that had just crashed, and searched for it. As the first Covenant ship to be shot down in this part of the story, the damage to this frigate is not very huge.

Although the Covenant infantry inside must have been dead, there is still a possibility of salvage for its electronic equipment and the number of people it carries. So far, the expedition team can only be regarded as confirming part of the UNSC's ship strength and land combat capabilities, and they still have a lot of information that needs to be further confirmed for the Star Alliance fleet that is about to invade this galaxy in a big way.

When Team 102 arrived at the crash site, the scene was in shambles, and the hundreds of meters long Star Covenant frigate had broken into two pieces and crashed into a mountain area a few kilometers away. There was fire everywhere in the wreckage nearby.

In the midst of the ruins, some of the surviving Covenant infantry were gathering in groups of three or five to save themselves, most of them low-level infantry like the Gnolls. The rest of the elite, who seemed to be fine, quickly assembled, urging all the nearby Covenant infantry to gather and quickly leave the vicinity of the hull wreckage.

They knew that it would not be long before the UNSC's search force would arrive to investigate the scene. If they don't quickly escape from the crash site and find a hiding place, they will be drowned by the sea of humans they despise.

After these elites left with most of the active Covenant infantry. Team 102 quietly infiltrated the wreckage of the battleship. Inside the wreckage of the ship's hull, they searched all the way. Soon the original bridge was found along the communication line.

Here, they collected as much electronic information as possible that the Covenant commanders had left behind and quickly withdrew. When they withdrew, they dragged some of the Covenant infantry, who looked like they were still alive, and put them on the shuttle, ready to take them back to the Pegasos.

If they can be saved, then these Covenant infantry may be able to provide some useful information. Even if they can't save it, it's a new batch of biological samples collected. No matter how you calculate it, you won't lose.

Almost 2 hours later. Squad 102 successfully completed the plan, bringing back the information gathered and the wounded Covenant infantry. The electronic information was sent directly to the Zero space station for analysis, while the wounded were sent directly to the ship's biological laboratory.

When the 102 team was about to return to Zhiyuan Star to continue the investigation, Shen Chao stopped them and said that he would go back with them. While the 102 squad was searching for the wreckage of the ship. Team 501, which had already completed its personnel capture plan, roamed around the Reach Star to test the sensitivity of the UNSC's detection system.

They drove all the stealth equipment, basically ran through all the important military nodes of Zhiyuan, and even landed a defensive space station that was preparing for war without anyone noticing. But there is no sign of any detection of these actions. This means that the concealment capacity of their new shuttle has reached the point where it allows them to enter freely.

Since this is the case, then Shen Chao doesn't need to just send one or two teams out to investigate the situation, they can send a team out to search all the places on Zhiyuan Star that they are interested in. If they encounter danger, their team members can simply turn on the jump engine and escape.

It is worth noting that the jump engine of their new shuttle is also upgraded, and is not an exact copy of the jump engine obtained by the BSG plane. Their upgrade technology is based on the multi-node positioning technology developed by humans in the Titanfall plane, which can realize the near-magic skill of jumping within the atmosphere.

That's why Shen Chao had previously asked Team 102 and Team 501 to take what seemed to be a big danger, even if they were discovered or besieged by the UNSC or the Covenant forces, as long as they were fast enough, they could run away in the shuttle.

After completing the handover, Shen Chao took Custer and Alice on a new type of shuttle, and followed the 102 team to Zhiyuan Star along the same road. On the way, Alice, who was sitting in the cockpit, finally looked a little more relaxed, without the cold feeling she had been carrying before.

Although Shen Chao wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to say something, but was stopped by Alice's eyes, it seemed that she was very serious about talking about her own affairs after the task was over. Shen Chao could only be stuck again, looking back at what had happened to make their relationship so stiff.

"If I had known it would be so quiet before I got here, I wouldn't have agreed to sit in a shuttle with you. Custer said when he saw the two people sitting in the front of him so quiet. Although he didn't know what was going on between Shen Chao and Alice, he knew that these two guys were distracted during the mission, so he reminded them in this way.

"Mind your own business...... We don't need outside opinions......" Alice and Shen Chao turned their heads almost at the same time and replied, the content and even tone of their replies were almost identical. This tacit sense of understanding developed by living together made both of them feel relaxed after speaking, and the tense and awkward atmosphere in the cabin disappeared before.

"You two, no thanks! Seeing that the atmosphere in the cabin was relaxed, Custer added this sentence in his heart.

More than an hour later, they arrived at the periphery of Zhiyuan. Looking at the Zhiyuan Star below from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, a natural beauty arises spontaneously. As a terrestrial planet, Zhiyuan Star has a high degree of similarity to the Earth, and the scenery is very beautiful.

Zhiyuan Star not only has a huge ocean and land, a breathable atmosphere, but also regardless of the gravity index, the rotation and revolution cycle are very close to the earth, if not very demanding, life here is not much different from on the earth, the air quality is slightly better, of course, this refers to the present.

In a few days, once the fleet battle between UNSC and the Covenant is over, the Covenant will begin to "burn glass" to the planet, and when the time comes, the beautiful habitable planet will turn into a sea of hot plasma, and all surface settlements will be reduced to ashes.

"It's beautiful, it's a pity! Alice said with regret when she saw the scenery outside.

"This is not the only planet facing the destruction of Miè, we can't save everyone......" Although Shen Chao also felt that the planet in front of him was very beautiful, he knew that the current expedition team was not capable of preventing the fate of Zhiyuan Star from being destroyed Miè.

There are too many Star Covenant warships, and even if they join the fleet to help UNSC after the war, it is difficult to say whether it will change the situation of the battle in the plot. What they can do now is to use this opportunity, to take advantage of the opportunity created by those below who are destined to die in the war to find their goal, and thus to save the people of those planes they care more about.

"I know, I really know! Alice replied with emotion, and there was even a chill in her tone. It seems that Ada's previous betrayal of her really had a heavy impact on her, and she is full of love and soft-heartedness, and she is stimulated to fully agree with Shen Chao's concept on this kind of issue!

This was unbelievable before, although Alice was able to agree to make some moral compromises according to Shen Chao's request out of the overall situation, but she always adhered to her own moral values. (To be continued......)

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