Containment Control Starts With the Umbrella

Spartan A-007, inside John's drop bay.

Through the few observation windows in front of him, John could clearly see the 'flame' gradually ignited outside the window.

Due to the fact that it was passing through the black barrier, the communication in the Thor's Hammer helmet was only a small current noise.

At this time, Cortana's face appeared in the upper left corner of the helmet screen, and reported to John:

"Master Chief, it is expected that communication will be resumed in thirty seconds. We are about forty kilometers above the coordinates and thirty-five kilometers away from the entry barrier."

"Um."

John, still with an emotionless face, nodded after Cortana's report.

Thirty seconds later.

"Bu... Sergeant... Chief... Please..." Michelle's intermittent voice came from the communication.

After a few seconds, the communication was completely restored to normal: "Master Chief, you are the commander of this operation, what should we do after we enter the barrier area?"

Hearing this, John said in a low voice without hesitation: "The moment we enter the barrier, Cortana will test our individual communication.

If you don't hear Cortana, we'll have a wired communication after the drop pod has landed.

As for the reconnaissance plan, we will make it after we enter the barrier area and see the actual situation. "

"Haha, as expected of Sparta, I can't hear nervousness at all." Michelle laughed and teased.

"Yeah." John still answered briefly.

"..." This caused the communication to fall into a brief silence for a while.

Sudden.

"I'm going... Everyone, look out the window!" Myron's unique voice resounded, breaking the small embarrassment caused by John.

Immediately, the sighs of Carl and Crazy Tooth Shark came from the inside of the communication:

"God..."

"This time there may be hundreds of millions."

"Haha! In order to cover us, the boss really came up with a lot of money."

Hearing the increasingly lively communication, John also looked away from the display screen beside him, and then looked out of the observation window of the warehouse door.

I just saw that countless missiles just skipped their airborne compartments, with white 'tails', and quickly rushed towards the red barrier visible to the naked eye below.

"Huh! Huh!" At the same time, four 'thick orange light beams' flashed.

This is the Yamato salvo of the battleship, which is used to strike uninhabited desert areas in Egypt, and is confused with missiles.

Dozens of seconds after the Yamato salvo, Cortana reported to John Hui: "Master Chief.

UNSC troops stationed on the Egyptian border reported no anomalous phenomena or creatures escaping from the barrier area, other than the smoke from the shock wave. "

Speaking of this, Cortana's tone sank and said: "No data can be measured for such a large-scale bombing...

It is possible that humans in Egypt have completely lost signs of life. "

On the other hand, John replied quietly: "It may also be an abnormal phenomenon, and I don't care about the blow of Yamato Cannon."

"Don't care at all?" Cortana on the screen was stunned and said in surprise:

"Although the penetrating power of the Yamato Cannon is not as good as that of the Electromagnetic Accelerator Cannon, four low-power salvos are enough to shock the whole of Egypt."

"Okay." John said through the observation window on the bottom side of the hatch, seeing the closer and closer barrier:

"Analysis outside is fruitless. Don't forget that our mission is to investigate. It's your job to wait."

"Yes." Cortana also put away her surprised face and waited for the airborne capsule to break into the barrier.

Swish-!

In an instant, John's airborne chamber was the first to enter the barrier.

Outside the window, there seemed to be thick blood red smoke, and from time to time, a dark red electric current flashed through.

Immediately afterwards, the communication channel that was still discussing Yamato guns and missiles fell into complete silence after entering the barrier.

Soon, the bloody 'dark clouds' were no longer outside the window, and the vision became wider.

John saw the other pods also pass through the barrier cloud and into the territory of Egypt.

Visibility outside was moderate, except that everything seemed to be covered in red and looked very dim.

"Master Chief." Cortana's voice came from John's ear:

"I tried to get in touch with Infinity, but it was just noise except for the noise, which was completely expected."

"Boom-boom-"

As soon as Cortana's voice fell, a series of small explosions came from below, which seemed to be caused by the salvo of missiles.

John looked at the display on the left and found that his airborne capsule was only about one kilometer away from the ground, and the distance to the ground was rapidly shortening.

When it's about to hit the ground...

With a click of "Hu-!", the ejector at the bottom of the airborne compartment was manually turned on by John.

With the violent vibration from the warehouse, the speed also dropped to a low point in an instant.

then…

With a muffled sound of "Coax-!" John's airborne compartment smashed into the ground, splashing a lot of dust.

"Coax-! Coax-!" and more drop tanks smashed nearby.

Although the movement was loud, it was nothing compared to the aftermath of thousands of missiles and four Yamato cannons.

"Click-! Click-!"

The continuous sound of the barn door popping resounded on this medium-sized oasis.

John took out the plasma rifle and a large number of battery magazines and grenades, jumped out of the airdrop compartment, and ordered Cortana:

"Cortana, try the connection of individual communications.

Also, monitor the air for the presence of harmful substances. "

"Already doing it," Cortana replied.

And Karl, Myron, and the Crazy Tooth Shark Company led by Michelle who walked out of the airborne warehouse, all gathered their weapons and equipment near John.

"Sergeant."

At this moment, Cortana said in a pleasant tone: "The composition of the air is normal, and the communication of individual soldiers has not been disturbed."

"Very good." John nodded lightly, and used the communication to order the crowd:

"Major Michelle, free up four classes of Crazytooth to be on guard, and the rest stay here to assemble the Warthog.

BLU team, follow me to the nearby dunes for reconnaissance. "

"Yes." (x4)

The people who were instructed began to split up.

Four classes of sharks, armed with standard pulse rifles and smart machine guns, scattered around the landing site and maintained high alert.

As for Myron and Karl, who were holding a rotating Gauss gun and a Gauss sniper rifle, they followed John out of the oasis and walked towards a higher dune outside the oasis.

Using the vision system provided by the helmet and the assistance of Cortana, the three confirmed that there was no abnormal phenomenon around.

When Thor's hammer automatically adapted to the sandy environment, they accelerated their speed and rushed towards the dunes.

The three of them came to the top and squatted down to look north.

I saw a scarlet light flashing in the direction of Cairo.

Using the far-sighted function of the helmet, it was found that the entire Cairo seemed to be "cracked", and there was a vaguely huge figure on the outskirts of the city.

Seeing this, Myron couldn't help shaking his head and sighed, "John... Carl... Don't you think it looks like...

Like the entrance to hell? "