Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

"Shua-."

As the split metal door opened, Robert and a group of brothers walked into the bridge.

Walking in, I saw more than a dozen crew members who seemed to have just finished their shift, drinking coffee, sitting in front of their respective consoles.

A large holographic communication screen is presented in the center of the bridge.

Case, dressed in a gray captain's costume, stood beside the screen, and the screen was Sui Bian, the father the Primarchs hadn't seen for a long time.

"Captain." Coming to the front of the screen, Robert first greeted Case, then looked at Sui Bian who was standing at the other end of the screen and said, "Father."

"Yeah." Sui Bian didn't show too much emotion, and said to Robert and the rest of his sons:

"There have been some changes in the weapons made for you, so you need to return to Earth as soon as possible to go to the Göbekli Research Center, and then accept inspections there to help the center find the cause of the changes."

"What about you, father?" Robert asked.

"Depending on the situation, if there is nothing important, I will also go to Göbekli." Sui Bian said casually.

But as sons, Robert, John and the rest of the brothers know that their father can say this, which means that his father also wants to see them as soon as possible.

It's just that Sui Bian was unwilling to express it.

The primarch was used to this.

"I know father." While responding to Sui Bian, Robert glanced at Sanguinius beside him from the corner of his eye, and then continued to report:

"Father, there is one more thing I need to tell you."

"Oh?" Sui Bian at the other end of the screen saw Robert's small movements, and then looked at Sanguinius and asked:

"What's the matter? Are those intermittent broken pictures bothering you again, Sanguinius."

"No, father, it's actually..."

Sanguinius stepped forward, organized his words, and told Sui Bian everything he saw in his mind.

After listening, Sui Bian's expression remained calm, he thought for a moment in silence, and said to Sanguinius:

"It is true that something happened to your divine body, but it is not bad news for you and the company, and there is no need to have too much psychological burden."

"Yeah." Sanguinius nodded.

"Captain Keyes." Sui Bian ordered to Keyes who was standing on the side: "From now on, the Guardian of the Dawn will enter a state of full combat readiness, cooperate with the Hope and Destroyer, and face possible hostile forces." star power."

"Please rest assured, sir." Case accepted the order with a serious face.

"Robert, take your brothers to Göbekli as soon as possible, I'll be there soon."

"Yes, father."

"Very good." After Sui Bian finished speaking, he took the initiative to end the communication.

The holographic screen in the bridge dissipates.

However, the dignified atmosphere did not dissipate due to the disappearance of the screen.

From the conversation just now, the crew all heard a rough idea, knowing that human beings are very likely to face alien forces.

Even though Umbrella had contacted the Iron-Blood Clan who were also alien forces several years ago, the people at the scene did not know the specific details of that year.

The crew no longer had the good mood to drink a cup of coffee to prepare for work after waking up, but instead felt heavy.

"My God!" Ruth scratched his head and sighed: "I didn't expect Sanguinius' prophecy to be accurate this time?!"

After all, the father's attitude of attaching importance to it proves that this incident may be true.

Ruth, who had a loud voice, wanted to say something, but when he saw the threat in Robert's eyes, he "consciously" stopped speaking.

Immediately afterwards.

"Captain, let's leave first." Robert, who was about to leave the bridge, said to Case.

"Okay, I'll let the Dawnguard rush to the sky over the Middle East, which will save you some time."

"Excuse me, Captain."

Robert led a group of brothers off the bridge.

Shortly after.

Still the hangar area of ​​the Guardian of the Dawn.

On the lower deck, the Fishing Gull, carrying ten primarchs, started its engines and closed the hatch at the aft of the engine room.

Three ground crew members are conducting the final check on Yugull.

After completing the inspection, the ground crew immediately ran away to a safe distance.

One of the ground crew wearing a red helmet gave a thumbs up to the pilot in the cockpit, and then switched on the communicator hanging on his shoulder and said something.

soon.

A giant robotic arm came to this area, unfolded its four-petal grip, and firmly clamped the Yugull in standby.

Then the mechanical arm transported the Fishing Gull to a decompression chamber on the left side of the deck where the internal valve had been opened.

Unload the Fishing Gull, withdraw the mechanical arm, and close the internal valve.

The sound of "Qi~!" means that the valve is sealed and the pressure is reduced rapidly.

Only more than ten seconds passed, the original bright light turned dark red, and the external valve at the front of the nose slowly unfolded.

After the valve was fully opened, Yugull stowed the landing gear and drove into the decompression chamber, and came to the outer space of the ship.

Next, the two pilots in the cockpit adjusted their angles and flew into the atmosphere.

At the same time, another passenger in the cabin was Sui Bian's Fishing Gull, which was sailing east across the North Atlantic.

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inside the cabin.

Sui Bian, who was still sitting close to the cockpit, did not operate the tablet as usual to handle company-related affairs, or check the latest anomalies that were controlled and eliminated.

He was lying on the seat, seemingly resting with his eyes closed, but he was actually recalling the memories of his previous life to analyze what he was about to face this time.

To be precise, it is the "power" that will be faced after dozens of days.

Just now, the system that usually has no sense of existence suddenly issued a mission in his mind:

[The exploration fleet that detected the "predator" civilization is expected to enter the gravitational range of Mars in 1440 hours.

240 hours after entering the gravitational range of Mars, the fleet will reach Earth's low-Earth orbit.

Task content: Destroy the exploration fleet of the "Predator" civilization.

Task reward: 20,000 points. 】

With this systematic task, Sui Bian can be more sure of Sanguinius's "prophecy" this time, and the deviation is not too big.

Secondly, since this civilization is called "predator" by the system, they must be the enemy of mankind.

Sui Bian wanted to use the memories of his previous life to try to find any alien forces related to the "Predator", but there was no clue.

Finally, 1440 and 240 as the system said.

Sui Bian speculates that this exploration fleet may be released within the range of the solar system before releasing the transition, warp speed, and other states of faster-than-light travel, and use the conventional speed of the ship to explore the solar system.

It is also possible that the "predator" civilization does not have the technology to travel faster than the speed of light, and lives in the universe for a long time using ships as their homes, or masters some kind of freezing technology, and is awakened when they reach the target star system.

or…

The organisms of the "predator" civilization have extremely long life spans, even different from carbon-based life forms.