Chapter 255: Passed the Assessment! Chief Pharmacist! City of Brotherly Love!
Before long, hundreds of soldiers had chosen their own weapons and firearms and brought sufficient ammunition. They matched their weapons according to their usual training configurations.

"Please enter the simulated battlefield and prepare for this actual combat assessment."

At this time, the prompt sound in the radio sounded again from the communication device, "You can form a team by yourself, or fight alone, but the ultimate goal is to survive!"

"This assessment will have four waves of attacks. The last survivors will receive generous rewards and formal battle group organization. May you all have good fortune in military affairs."

The end of the universe is the organization. Even the calmest and most unperturbed warriors feel their blood boiling at this moment. There are smooth ladders for advancement, welfare benefits, and the most elite weapons.

The gateway to the resources of the entire global giant enterprise is right in front of them. Honor and power are within their reach, and all they have to do next is to pass it!

"Hahaha! That's right, this is everything I desire, a formal member of the regiment, the best weapons and equipment, the most beautiful girls, all of them are mine!"

"Hey, calm down for a while and put your mind and energy into the test. This test is more difficult than any other time. Don't give up halfway."

"Hehe! No level can stump us. Kaiju, Quantum Nether, and Clones, come at us!"

"Since the newly added firearms equipment include hard light weapons, is it possible that the Flood Zerg will appear in these four waves of assessments?!"

"..."

As the broadcast prompt sounded, the ready Astartes warriors began to cheer each other up and quickly formed their own combat teams.

They made appropriate personnel arrangements according to their usual training, and everyone was very clear about their position, including who was the assaulter and who was the demolitionist.

After all, humans are social animals. We need cooperation, interaction, and communication to bring out the maximum potential of each individual and maximize the results.

Even the best soldier in this new army would actively form a team to increase his chances of survival.

"Everyone, the final 30-second countdown begins now. Whether you are ready or not, the test has already begun. I hope you can leave here alive."

"Go and take the honor and reward that belongs to you!"

As soon as the words fell, the broadcast was officially hung up. Only a "click" was heard, followed by a dead silence. The gate that blocked the waiting area began to open slowly.

This is the assessment area for the simulated battlefield!
Looking around, the battlefield environment this time is that of a modern city, with densely packed high-rise buildings and chaotic bunkers, providing many hiding places for this combat assessment.

But at the same time, there will be many more dangerous factors hidden in the bunkers!
30 seconds passed in a flash, and with the sound of the assessment start prompt, the soldiers stepped onto the assessment point, raised their guns and looked around vigilantly.

Everyone wearing tactical helmets looked solemn and nervous. Their rapid breathing echoed in everyone's ears, and their throbbing heartbeats made them feel eager to fight.

After all, it's a matter of life and death and a person's bright future. No one would want to fail suddenly at this time. Not only do they have to survive, but they also have to show their vigorous momentum to the boss behind the scenes.

For practical graduation assessments like this, the supervisors of each regiment would usually come to check it out.

When they come across suitable talents, they will be picked out and placed in their respective troops for training.

If you can join the Advance Team of the Heavens or the Ace Advance Team, it would be like reaching heaven in one step!

Therefore, everyone stared intently at the front and communicated tactics from time to time, hoping to perform brilliantly in this assessment.

However, just as the soldiers were on high alert and slowly moving towards the depths of the battlefield, they found that it was extremely quiet here, as if no enemy units had been deployed.

There was no roar of the biochemical tyrant, no armed assault of clone soldiers, no roar of the small Kaiju, and no quietly lurking quantum netherworld.

Looking at the information appearing on the zoomed-out radar map, the soldiers couldn't help but feel confused. They all speculated about what the enemy they were about to face this time would be.

"Gulu——!"

Suddenly, with the help of the sound capture device provided by the power armor, the soldiers heard a strange muffled sound, as if someone was talking underwater.

Afterwards, the pulse scanner also captured a large number of mobile units, and the radar map on the screen also showed dense red dots.

It is obvious that these are weakened versions of the Flood bred by the biotechnology department of a giant company using elite samples of the Flood, but these Flood bugs are equally deadly.

Currently, the world's giant companies are also considering using the Flood as their own biological weapons, but the current Flood experiments are still in the research stage and can only reduce the intensity of infection and maintain aggressiveness.

It is currently impossible to follow the command and control of a giant enterprise.

Seeing this, the Astartes warriors immediately became alert, made tactical arrangements in advance, and constructed a cross-fire defensive formation.

"Shit! I didn't expect that the thing we have to fight is the Flood. This test is really going to cost lives."

"The bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish! Just do it, don't tell me you're still afraid of this thing!"

"..."

A soldier spoke in the communication channel, cursing.

After learning that the enemy unit they were about to face was the notorious Flood, the soldiers suddenly became nervous and serious.

The atmosphere at the entire street entrance suddenly became much more serious.

Everyone knew how exaggerated the mortality rate of the Flood was. Before the assessment began, they really didn't expect that they would fight against the Flood.

"Here they come! Damn, these bastards look so disgusting!"

The Astartes warriors at the northern entrance of the street shared their vision of the situation here after some operations.

Everyone saw endless octopus-shaped bugs; that was the infected form of the Flood!
“Fire—!”

"Destroy all these bastards!"

In an instant, dense gunfire suddenly rang out, and a beam of blue light shot out of the gun barrel. After hitting the Flood in the front, the extremely high energy beam was like a needle piercing a balloon.

A large number of Flood demons were shattered into mucus. This batch of hard light weapons had a very good killing efficiency in dealing with the Flood demons.

Some smart warriors, through the information of [Hard Light Weapons], realized in advance that this assessment might be related to the "Flood".

So they specially brought a large number of hard-light firearms, and with the help of their teammates' auxiliary shooting, they alternated their offensive firepower and actually intercepted the first wave of the flood invasion!

Click!

When the soldiers at the front needed to change ammunition, the soldiers who had prepared for alternating shooting and covering in advance immediately took their place and maintained the intensity of the shooting.

Only a few minutes later, the first wave of attacks ended. The good news was that they survived and no one died.

But the bad news is that there will be three more waves of Flood invasions. The soldiers must make tactical preparations in advance and use the current amount of ammunition to properly deal with the subsequent Flood units!
Without any quarrels or nonsense, after quickly loading the ammunition, making more defensive formations, and occupying advantageous terrains everywhere, the second wave of Flood invasion followed!

"Come on, I'm going to treat you bastards to a hard-light bullet, no need to be polite to me!"

"Keep fighting, don't stop!"

The soldiers encouraged each other and continued to fight against the Flood. Another round of intensive shooting rang out.

Not long after, the Astartes warriors who had run out of bullets finally managed to hold on until the end of the four rounds of assessment.

The Scorpion Tailed Lion virus was dropped on the simulated battlefield to eliminate all the Flood spores and Flood survivors.

Bang!
Some of the Flood demons that are still alive will be immediately decomposed into spores and completely shattered and annihilated after coming into contact with the Scorpion Tailed Lion virus.

At the same time, the Temple Defenders also joined the purification and cleansing tasks. They continued to shoot beams of light to eliminate the Flood hiding everywhere.

There were a total of three hundred soldiers taking part in this graduation assessment, eight of whom were killed, and the rest all survived.

The fallen will be posthumously named first-class martyrs of the giant enterprise, and their families will receive corresponding pensions, resource support, and generous welfare benefits.

The survivors have successfully graduated and are about to start a new life.

Most of the judges gave quite high scores to this combat assessment. After all, no soldier abandoned his teammates because of fear of death.

Not a single soldier was afraid of fighting and fled. When they ran out of bullets, they rushed forward with chainswords and fought in close combat, providing their comrades with precious time to reload.

Therefore, this group of soldiers did not suffer from the failure of a small number of people, which would lead to a chain reaction of collapse of the entire army, and there was no excessively high death rate.

When encountering such a tense battle, the best way to deal with it is to just breathe it out, whoever loses his temper first will collapse first. If one person runs away, countless others will run away.

The outcome of this battle can be imagined!

At this moment, in the isolation area of ​​the experimental center.

The remaining surviving warriors have taken off their power armor and put on hospital gowns. They are about to undergo further virus testing.

This is to prevent someone from accidentally inhaling Flood spores, which may cause subsequent infection to get out of control, so every soldier needs to undergo a strict examination before they can move freely again.

After the soldiers completed the testing process, drew blood and biological samples, and confirmed that everything was normal, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Congratulations, everyone. I am so happy to see that you are still alive. Now, you are about to start your new life."

"I, Victor Victor, the chief pharmacist of the Universal Corporation, will now personally perform the organ transplant surgery on you. Close your eyes and enjoy it."

"I promise that when you wake up, you will be greeted by a brilliant new life, and power and honor will always be with you."

At this moment, Lao Wei, wearing an auxiliary visual system device on his head, came to the control panel and congratulated the soldiers on the operating tables.

Over the years, Lao Wei has become the royal pharmacist of the "Iron Hands" regiment, researching the cultivation of gene seeds, transplanting organs, and performing transformation surgeries.

Of course, Victor has not forgotten his old profession. He also works on cybernetics, but less so.

After all, there are really not many chosen ones like V who can withstand the transformation of gene seeds and accept full prosthetic devices.

Originally, Victor would only perform organ transplants on extremely outstanding fighters, like David Martinez.

However, the outstanding performance of this group of young fighters impressed many members of the jury, so they made an exception and got the opportunity to perform surgery on Victor.

Before the soldiers could recover from their surprise and astonishment, Victor had already injected sedatives, causing them to fall into a deep sleep.

"The operation has begun. I wish you a bright future."

As soon as he finished speaking, Victor used the control panel to perform organ transplants on more than 200 soldiers fixed on the operating tables at the same time.

……

Shield world, core area!

At this moment, thousands of aircraft carriers, cruisers, frigates and other ships belonging to giant companies in the world are anchored steadily in the sky, and there are countless transport boats coming and going.

Ever since Leon conquered the UNSC's intelligent AI through the AI ​​Council, the UNSC's warship data, blueprint information and other technologies have all become part of the giant company's possession.

With the help of these free technology points, giant companies have built a large number of warships that are lower in cost and suitable for multiple tactics.

For example, the Carthage-class aircraft carrier, which is nearly five kilometers in length and is considered a super carrier by the UNSC, is a very suitable replacement for the Infinity-class aircraft carrier.

Most of the time, when the naval warships of the world's giants are performing missions, war resources are relatively "overflowing" and wasted.

Not every mission requires an Infinity-class carrier to execute. The less powerful Carthage-class carrier is more suitable for most application scenarios.

But having said that, the Carthage-class aircraft carrier was also hard-won for the UNSC.

Judging from the current timeline of the Halo universe, most of the UNSC's main aircraft carriers are actually outdated cruisers that have been modified.

If the signs of rebellion in the colonies had not intensified, requiring more warships and more powerful aircraft carriers to suppress the rebels, the UNSC might not have made up its mind to build the Carthage-class aircraft carrier.

According to their past behavior, they would simply modify cruisers and turn them into aircraft carriers, or repair other transport boats and turn them into colonial ships.

However, no matter how these broken things are modified, they are still not presentable.

You can't rely on a pile of scrap metal to fight a war.

Therefore, in 2460, the UNSC Navy simultaneously launched the "New Era" and "Carthage" aircraft carrier projects, attempting to build a large and advanced aircraft carrier.

It took 30 years before the New Era aircraft carrier and Carthage aircraft carrier were fully put into service. Relying on these two types of aircraft carriers, the UNSC was able to suppress the rebels everywhere.

At this moment, after obtaining permission, the Covenant fleet was rushing out of the core of the shield world at a constant speed and passing over the surface.

Soon, the fleet arrived in the low-Earth orbit of the Shield World and remained stationary in the area, waiting for the next command and instructions.

In the CCS-level headquarters command room.

Morami, the commander-in-chief of the Star Alliance Fleet, issued an order to the communicators below:
"Notify all units now. All units will begin warping in 5 minutes. This time, our destination is the City of Brotherly Love!"

During the days they stayed inside the Shield World, elite warriors such as Morami and Wadami not only fought one-on-one duels with Astartes warriors such as David and compared strength.

He also did not forget to follow Li Ang, the top leader of the giant company, and listen to his speeches.

During these few months of study, Morami was like Sun Wukong who listened to Patriarch Bodhi's teachings in Lingtai Fangcun Mountain. He understood human nature and knew more truths.

Most importantly, it learned how to improve!

This time, Morami is about to return to the Star Alliance's capital, High Charity, with the mission of its supreme leader Leon. Its main task is to stabilize the Prophet and his gang of old guys.

Be prepared to act like a time bomb, and when the giant company needs you, jump out and give the prophet a ruthless blow.

"Yes, sir."

After receiving the instructions, the communicator immediately conveyed the order to various parts of the fleet.

Then, Morami turned his head and looked at the two Astartes officers, Reed and Jack Wells.

This time, Reed and Jack will accompany Morami to the City of High Charity. In addition to the purpose of supervision, this move also intends to help Morami instigate a rebellion against the entire elite tribe.

"Everyone, we will arrive at the capital of the Star Alliance in about 72 hours. By then, I will report the situation here to the prophet as planned and stabilize those old guys."

Morami looked at Reed and Jack. Of course, it knew why Leon sent these two people here. It was just to keep an eye on it.

How could Morami dare to disobey these two special envoys?

But this is also a good thing. If someone is keeping an eye on the work, there will be someone who can record its contributions truthfully, and when the time comes, it will definitely have a share of the rewards.

Li De nodded and said, "Our first priority this time is to incite the entire Sangheili tribe to revolt. As for the Prophet, I don't think we can hide it from them for too long."

“Try to prepare for the worst, just in case.”

The prophet had never lost his vigilance against the elites. Even for something as big as exploring the Shield World ruins, only the elite tribes came back to report.

This will arouse some suspicion among the prophets, and they may even send investigators to re-verify it.

Therefore, it is best to be prepared in advance to tear each other apart and turn the table over.

"Anyway, don't forget your boss's orders."

Reed spoke again to remind Morami, which was also a reminder to him and Jack that he and Morami were watching here, so he shouldn't try any tricks.

Otherwise, the entire elite tribe will be buried with him!

"Yes!"

Morami nodded immediately, indicating that it was okay.

As the three were talking, the holographic screen on the center console showed that the countdown had ended, and a dark blue vortex formed in front of the entire fleet.

As the engine device was torn apart, the jump space was opened. With Morami's order, the entire fleet instantly disappeared into the vast sea of ​​stars.

……

……

(End of this chapter)