Chapter 249 The rules are that the dead are alive!

The Noetic Domain is a huge knowledge base inherited by the Forerunner civilization from the Pioneers, which records the origin, knowledge information, genetic species and other information of the entire Halo universe.

And the [neurophysics] that Leon desires most is most likely in the realm of intelligence.

In order to enter the intelligent domain and read the information inside, you need to connect through an access point and have a professional tool platform to read it, otherwise it is easy to be killed by the massive data flow.

It just so happens that the Shield World itself is a huge access point to the intelligent domain. Humans can use this huge reading tool to connect to the intelligent domain and read the information in it.

Without the Shield World, it would be equivalent to losing the reading tool, and the Universal Corporation would not be able to connect to the Noetic Domain normally and find [Neurophysics] from it.

Therefore, what the Megacorp fleet needs to do is not only to come here to explore the remains of the Forerunners, but also to protect this huge shield world celestial body and never let it be damaged!

Otherwise, without the connection function of the Shield World, the giant global enterprise will not be able to easily obtain the information in the Intelligent Domain.

"very good!"

Halsey tried her best to suppress her inner excitement, she knew that she had accomplished a great success on this trip.

If she could really get hold of [Neurophysics], she would definitely be promoted to one of the top executives of a giant company.

Thinking of this, Halsey turned off the holographic screen and said to Reed beside him:

"Notify Captain Morgan and tell him that we have found the remains of the shield world. The ships, world seeds, nootropic access points, and neurophysics are all here."

"These things were chosen by the boss. Ask him to convey them to the boss as soon as possible."

Halsey thought of Leon first and paid attention to details. When facing the orders from the two leaders, Leon and Morgan, he would definitely report his work situation to the top leader first.

"Yes." Li De nodded.

Halsey then continued, asking Reed to relay this to Morgan Blackhand:

"In addition, the low-Earth orbit area of ​​Shield World has been completely cleared. Let Captain Morgan lead the team to occupy the advantageous space as soon as possible, and request more reinforcements to come here to take over Shield World."

Halsey didn't need to remind her of the latter sentence specifically, because Morgan Blackhand also learned through the reconnaissance plane that the Covenant fleet was dragged into the gravitational field.

As a qualified commander, he certainly knew what to do.

"Yes."

Without any nonsense, Li De immediately uploaded the situation here in an orderly manner to the Long Night, which was parked in low-Earth orbit.

To be on the safe side, Li De also used superluminal communication equipment to write an email and sent it to Li Ang.

On the other side, Halsey once again looked at the [031 Passionate Witness] Forerunner AI in front of him and gave it an order:

"I now need you to help us control the Covenant fleet inside the Shield World and make them submit to us. Can you do it?"

Halsey could see that the entire shield world was a huge gravity field weapon, and the Forerunners' use of gravity technology had reached the pinnacle.

The marine creatures roaming in the sky, the warships that can release gravity distortion, and the gravity field traction released by the shield world all demonstrate the forerunners' profound attainments in gravity technology.

【I'm sorry, I can't carry out your order. 】

After rejecting Halsey's request, the Forerunner AI added:

[My creator has set a rule in my basic protocol that no attack can be launched against any intelligent civilization, in order to avoid harming visiting recyclers.]

[Unless they cause serious damage to the Shield World, I will organize a counterattack and attack them.]

The Forerunner AI's reasons for refusal are well-founded. Intelligent machine rebellion is something that every intelligent species will be wary of. Who can guarantee that [031 Enthusiastic Witness] AI will not embezzle from its employees?

They stole the scientific and technological achievements of the forerunner civilization and developed their own mechanical civilization.

This agreement is precisely designed to limit the possibility of intelligent machine rebellion. This shows how many detailed deployments the Forerunners have racked their brains to set up in order to allow humans to successfully complete recycling.

Halsey soon realized the real reason for this restriction. Just as she was about to give another order to the Forerunner AI, the AI ​​continued:

[However, I can mobilize all the Sojourner battleship arrays in the Shield World. You only need to pick out 10 battleships to form a powerful gravity field array.]

[These warships are enough for you to "convince" the alien species of the Star Alliance, and all you have to do is send a dozen people to control these warships. ]

The Forerunner AI's intention of "killing with a borrowed knife" is obvious. The Sojourner warship is controlled by humans and has nothing to do with it. It is just providing advice.

Seeing this, Halsey immediately shook her head and smiled. She didn't expect that the AI's thinking was so active. Rules are dead, but people are alive.

This method is already a disguised way of helping humans to attack members of the Star Alliance, but it has not triggered the agreement.

But before Halsey could praise Pioneer AI, the other party put forward its own demands first.

That is to hope that the giant enterprise's troops can help clear out the Flood on the surface of the Shield World.

Because it has detected that the number of Flood is increasing, and due to the flesh sacrifices of fanatical religious believers of the Covenant, the number of Flood is beginning to slide in an uncontrollable direction.

In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes and preventing the tragic event of another flood invasion, we must completely extinguish the spark of their revival before the flood spreads!

But it is obvious that the Forerunner AI, restricted by the protocol, can only passively attack the Flood, but cannot organize a large-scale temple defender to completely eliminate the Flood on the ground.

After all, it doesn't have that permission!
Now that human troops have arrived, there is hope that these thorns will be completely eradicated.

Halsey did not hesitate at all in response to the Forerunner AI's request and nodded in agreement immediately.

"Don't worry. After dealing with the heretics of the Star Alliance, I will immediately notify the main force to come down and wipe out the Flood."

The progress of improving the Scorpion-tailed Lion virus against the Flood is almost complete. Halsey can send people down at any time to spread the virus spores and kill these troublesome Flood Zerg.

"Now mobilize the Sojourner warships here immediately. You don't need too many. Ten will be enough."

Halsey continued to give orders to the Forerunner AI, and when the time came, she would let David and others lead the team to surround the Covenant fleet.

【as you wish. 】

031 enthusiastically witnessed the AI's agreement, and immediately used its authority to summon the Sojourner warship that was parked not far from the ruins.

At this moment, Halsey said to David and Reed beside him: "You two, I need you to lead the Astartes warriors to the Star Alliance and wipe out all the heretics there." "But try not to have a fierce conflict with the other side. We need to capture them alive for questioning, and we need an insider to infiltrate the Star Alliance."

During the time she worked at the giant global company, Katherine Halsey had completely adapted to the environment here. The efficient and simple office style advocated by the giant company was very much to her liking.

Even when giving direct instructions to David and Li De, two veteran employees of giant companies, she could do it without any worries.

Facing Halsey's request, David did not care about it, but asked in return:
"We didn't bring any translators with us this time. Even if we let the intelligent AI learn the language of the Covenant, it will probably take some time."

David's concerns were not unfounded. Humans and the heretics of the Covenant did not speak the same language, so communication was a huge headache.

You know, before communicating with other civilized species, the world's giant companies will mobilize AI tools and teams of linguists to jointly promote new translation systems.

The entire process will take at least one month to achieve basic communication.

But now, apart from weapons and soldiers, their group brought with them an intelligent AI for decryption, but no decent real-time translation tools.

"David, this requires your wisdom."

Dr. Halsey smiled and patted David's leg armor, saying, "When gods communicate with mortals, they don't need language. Just one movement can make the other party understand your intentions."

"If the other party doesn't understand what you mean, you can express your anger appropriately and let them actively cooperate with you."

Halsey's words were a little hard to understand at first, but David Martinez, who was quick-witted, only thought about it for a moment and immediately understood what she meant.

To put it simply, you just have to play dumb and use body movements to communicate with the other party. First, get the people over, and then we can develop a translation system later.

If the other party resists and refuses to cooperate, then kill one first to scare the monkeys.

"Okay, I'll do my best!"

David nodded and looked at the young and ruthless Dr. Halsey in front of him. This girl seemed to be only in her 20s, but she had methods comparable to those of senior executives of giant companies.

"Thank you very much. Let Rita's team take care of the situation here. I will wait for your good news here."

Halsey smiled, and at this time, [031 Enthusiastic Witness] AI also mobilized the huge Sojourner battleship over.

Different from the warships that everyone imagines, the Sojourner Dreadnought's standby state is not horizontal, but vertical, like a giant sword inserted into the ground.

At first glance, no one would think it was a battleship, but a giant building similar to a tombstone!
"This... is this the battleship of the Forerunner civilization?!"

David was completely dumbfounded. He had never seen a warship flying vertically. However, what surprised him even more was that the Sojourner was only a part of the tombstone building!

The tombstone pillar in the middle is actually the Sojourner's combat base station, a device used for mooring and releasing energy, while the blade-like objects on both sides that look like pendants are the Sojourner's dreadnoughts.

In addition to forming an array and working together to emit powerful gravitational field distortions, these Sojourner Dreadnoughts can also combine together in an "octagonal" posture to emit deadly energy rays.

It’s a bit like the feeling of the Calabash Brothers combining together to unleash their ultimate move.

Such a novel warship form and attack method really opened the eyes of David and his group of country bumpkins who had never seen the world.

[Recyclers, please board the battleship! ]

……

At the other end, the inner space of the shield world.

At this moment, the Covenant's cruiser fleet has been steadily anchored in the sky above a certain field. Eight cruisers use anti-gravity devices to hover steadily in the air, maintaining a distance of two hundred meters from the ground.

As we all know, under normal circumstances, the scale of the armed forces of the scientific expedition team should be comparable to that of a formal main battleship formation.

But the Star Alliance was obviously more honest. They said it was a scientific expedition team and it was just a scientific expedition. They only sent less than 10 cruisers and didn't even have a decent aircraft carrier flagship.

The expeditionary force of the Universal Corporation only needs to send out an Infinity-class aircraft carrier and a few small destroyers to basically defeat the advance fleet of the Star Alliance.

Not to mention the 10 battleships of the Forerunner civilization, the Sojourner Dreadnoughts!

Here, the gates on the belly of each Covenant ship have been opened, and began to release a dazzling beam of light. This is the gravity elevator that the Covenant has reverse-engineered based on Forerunner technology.

The Forerunners have quite advanced points in the gravity technology tree, and the Star Alliance, who are keen on "Taobao", naturally got these technological devices for free from the Forerunners' relics.

At this moment, a large number of Covenant armored units quickly came to the surface via gravity elevators, and then launched a series of defense and reconnaissance operations on the ground in accordance with the instructions of their superiors.

Among these Covenant forces, the most conspicuous are naturally the Sangheili, who have strong physical fitness and high combat talent, that is, the elites.

Relying on their fighting ability and loud voices, they unsurprisingly became the commanders of various combat units of this advance team.

A standard Covenant combat squad is led by an elite warrior wearing power armor. It consists of about 10 members, including Kijar and Angyi.

The appearance of the Kigars is similar to that of jackals on Earth, and they look like the werewolf Garurumon in "Digimon", so they are also called jackals.

However, these jackals may look a little thin, but they are full of flesh inside. With a height of nearly two meters and a keen sense of smell, they often serve as scouts and snipers in the Covenant's combat teams.

Relying on his innate talent, the Jackal plays a role equivalent to a shooter or a squishy assassin in the Covenant's combat units.

Therefore, in terms of standard weapons and equipment, the Jackal soldiers mainly use long-range weapons such as plasma pistols, needle blasters, and energy sniper rifles.

From the jackals' choice of weapons, it can be seen that the nature of this race tends to be more of a "sly villain" and "backstab" type.

They are a race with low moral quality and tend to be bandits.

In the Covenant camp, the Jackals have no obvious factional affiliation and do not belong to any sect.

They have only one idea, which is to enjoy life while the wine and wine lasts, and to rob money, food and women!

Before being convinced by the elites and joining the Star Alliance, the jackals would bully civilizations weaker than themselves whenever they had nothing to do, highlighting their characteristic of "bullying the weak and fearing the strong."

After joining the Star Covenant and enjoying the shade of the big tree, they used advanced technology to start developing their own side business - that is, becoming interstellar pirates!
Today he goes to the east to steal chickens and dogs, and tomorrow he goes to the west to kill people and set fires. In four words, he does nothing.

Facing the evil jackals, the attitude of the Covenant's prophets was to turn a blind eye. They made their fortunes by robbing tombs, and they didn't have any moral baggage.

Based on the principle that if there are too many lice, there will be fewer bites, the prophet allowed the jackals to develop their side jobs as pirates, as long as they were good enough in fighting wars.

Therefore, in the Covenant’s troop camp, the Jackals are considered standard fence-sitter mercenaries. Whoever is the most powerful is their boss, and whoever can make them rich is their "god"!
(End of this chapter)