Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

"Don't...don't gossip..."

The man wiped the corners of his mouth and spoke in an extremely weak manner. With the support of his friend, he sat down at the dining table near the store door to rest.

Not long after.

Two waiters in maid outfits tried their best not to show disgust, and used mops and buckets to clean up the vomit.

On the other hand, the customers sitting nearby don't pay attention to the store's image like the waiters, and it would be nice if they can hold back their curses after smelling the disgusting smell.

Fortunately, the air circulation system is relatively powerful, and the odor is quickly discharged out of the store, making everything in the bar back on track.

However, the man who vomited did not show any signs of improvement, and now he was lying on the seat with his head up and fell into a coma.

Seemingly aware that the situation was not normal, the friends finally stopped joking and teasing, and tried to wake up the man by shaking him gently.

"Look quickly." Leon's angle of view happened to be able to directly observe the vicinity of the door of the bar.

Hearing this, Ada, who was sipping her wine, turned her head to look.

"I think it's best to leave here first." At this time, Leon suggested again.

"Yes." Ada nodded in agreement, put down the wine glass, raised her hand to beckon to a waiter not far away, and said:

"Hello~!"

"Is there anything else?" The waiter approached and asked.

Ada picked up the mobile phone on the table and said, "We want to pay the bill."

"But the set meals for the two of you are not ready yet." The waiter hesitated.

"We don't want to eat, mainly..."

Ada didn't finish her sentence, but she turned her back and pointed in the direction of the store door, with a frowning expression of disgust along the way.

"Sorry, please come with me." The waiter suddenly realized, and led Ada to the front desk.

Leon, who didn't interrupt the whole time, drank his share of beer in one gulp, got up and took the satchel beside him, met Ada who had completed the payment, and prepared to leave the bar together.

When the group of people passed by, they smelled the pungent smell again.

The moment Ada opened the door with Leon on her arm, she looked out of the corner of her eye and found that the man was breathing rapidly, his eyes were turning white, and green liquid even started to flow from the corner of his mouth.

Get out of the bar.

"Huh~." Ada took a heavy breath, looked at the public seats opposite the bar and said, "Go over there."

"Okay." Leon had no objection.

The next two sat down.

Ada pretended to touch up her makeup and continued to observe, and saw more and more customers covering their mouths and noses and fleeing the bar in a panic.

And Leon, who took out his mobile phone, glanced at the surveillance camera installed above the bar, and whispered to Ada after some operations:

"According to the facial scan, that group of people are the maintenance workers in charge of the underground system in Area 04. I have already found out the scope of their activities today, and we can go there to investigate later.

Also, the nano-scan shows that our body is normal, and there are no foreign objects in the body, so there is no need to worry about being infected for the time being. "

"Yeah." Ada closed the makeup box and asked while putting it back into the satchel: "What about the company?"

"I have already notified the company, but there is a delay in communication, and we still need to collect more information. After all, this may also be caused by local parasites." Leon said after putting away his mobile phone.

While the two were talking, three flying boats belonging to the emergency department rushed to the scene.

The flying boat unloaded the sheriff who was dressed similarly to the Earth police to maintain order on the scene, while the medical staff wearing masks and white uniforms entered the bar.

The public seats were already empty, and the figures of Leon and Ada also disappeared in this street full of pink and purple.

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Shortly after.

In the Eridanus ε galaxy, which is at least a hundred light-years away from the Arcadia colony, the Reach star known as the "Forge World" is currently in its third orbit.

Due to the "solar wind" emitted by the star ε Eridanus and the special magnetic field of Reach, the entire planet is surrounded by aurora-like rays of light, making it seem like a more tourist-friendly destination than Arcadia.

Take a closer look at Reach.

It can be seen that there are many large space stations named "orbital defense platforms" that look like a gun and are more than 1.4 kilometers long.

Each platform is equipped with an electromagnetic gun with a barrel length of 910 meters that can fire 10 tons of heavy tungsten iron projectiles, which is more powerful than the 20 tons of the main gun of the UNSC Marathon-class cruiser.

In addition to these defense platforms, the UNSC's 3rd and 4th main fleets are scattered in low-Earth orbit. After all, among all the colonized planets owned by humans, Reach is second only to Earth.

Every year, Reach will export a large number of warships and ships to UNSC and UEG.

Inside the atmosphere of Reach.

On the surface of the northern hemisphere facing the sun, in three of the docks of the Umbrella Shipyard, there are Zeus-class heavy aircraft carriers undergoing upgrades moored.

The three Zeus-class ships are Sui Bian's flagship Anthem of Courage, Corax's Shadow of the Raven, and the flagship of Umbrella's Seventh Legion, the Steel Impact.

Before the upgrade of the three flagships is completed, Reach will have Umbrella's three legions stationed at the same time, making its defense power reach the peak of "her".

However, the Iron Hands of the Seventh Legion were originally responsible for defending the Eridanus ε where the Reach star was located.

Even after the flagship has been remodeled, Reach still has the protection of the Iron Hand.

The current three legions are temporarily stationed at Umbrella's exclusive base, which is five kilometers east of the shipyard and can accommodate 500,000 people at the same time. It is no different from a town.

This base is used to accommodate the workers of the shipyard, and there are more than 10,000 armed security guards living there, so after welcoming three legions with a total number of nearly 90,000, it will not appear too crowded.

On the northernmost side of the base, there is a newly built simulation training area.

The scale is equivalent to a city block, with simple buildings of different heights, as well as alleys, intersections and streets.

At this time, a team of six "people" was walking through an alley.

The members of this team are 2.5 meters per person, wearing black training uniforms and white protective gear for training.

Armed with .75cal bolt rifles, and the Legion insignia on their armor, they represent the Astartes of the Raven Guard.

As for the ammunition pressed in the magazine, it is not the standard deuterium-core bolt, but a rubber bullet that does not pose fatal damage to the Astartes.

When the team was about to walk out of the alley, the six dark crows chose to squat on the ground to keep vigilant.

"Teng~! Teng~!" Because the bolt gun came from outside the alley, there was a muffled gunshot when the rubber bullet was fired.

"Charge! Brothers!" and the battle cry of the Astartes.

The two dark crows who heard the movement stepped forward slowly, looking at the main road outside the alley.

On the spacious main road, two Astartes squads with dark green and silver protective gear, abandoned the bolt rifles in their hands, and engaged in "point to stop" physical combat.

The dark green is the Dark Angel, and the silver is the Iron Hand.

And the so-called "click to stop"...

An iron hand was kicked off by the dark angel, and its body fell into a two-story house in a perfect parabola.

Then there was a sound of "Boom!", and the house that was tragically implicated was smashed down by the body of the iron hand.

But soon, the iron hand pushed away the ruins pressing on him, rushed back to the main road in two steps, and continued to compete with the dark angels who were brothers.

Within seconds.

Like an efficient demolition team, the two teams razed the nearby simple buildings to ruins, and the protective gear they were wearing was also torn off and destroyed during the hand-to-hand combat.

See here.

The Raven Squad took the opportunity to rush out of the alley, lined up their guns at Iron Hand and Dark Angel, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Teng! Teng!"

Dense rubber bullets came out and hit the brothers who lost the protection of their protective gear.

…

High platform outside the training area.

The three Primarchs in custom-made military uniforms stood on the edge of the high platform overlooking the "battle situation" on the main road.

On the far left, Corax, with slightly longer black hair and fair skin, said, "The winner has been decided, brothers, this mock battle is won by my Ravens."

Leon, who stood in the center and responded with a nod, still showed an indifferent demeanor that could not see through his mind.

The primarch on the far right is much rougher than the two brothers beside him, and he is a typical muscular man.

And he is the Primarch of the Seventh Legion, the seventh son of Sui Bian, Ferrus.

"Hmm..." Ferrus squeezed his chin lightly with his left hand, put his right hand behind his back, and commented in a low voice:

"The strength of the Iron Hands is frontal attack. The Dark Angels are good at assault and hand-to-hand combat, while the Raven Guard is good at rear enemy lines and guerrillas. If our three legions are mixed together to fight together, it will be a perfect complement."

"I hope there is such an opportunity." Corax echoed.

"..." Leon shrugged wordlessly.

"Leon." Ferrus asked instead: "You spend the longest time with your father. Doesn't your father have a battle plan against the alien race?"

The fact that the galaxy is populated by various alien races is no secret between Umbrella and UNSC high command.

Within 500 light-years outside the territory of human beings, there are Celts and iron-blooded mother stars to which the Lone Wolf belongs, which even the UNSC high-level officials do not know. Umbrella also detected that there are galaxies that are suspected to be active by other alien races.

But Leon, who heard the question, shook his head and replied indifferently: "No, father said that now is not the best time to announce our existence to the galaxy."

…

While the three Primarchs were talking, the office building in the central area of ​​the base.

In the top office.

Sui Bian, who was sitting behind his desk, was looking through several holographic screens displayed on the desktop for various materials and files that two artificial intelligences had sorted out for him.

While looking it up, he released his spiritual energy, continuously covering the entire planet, secretly sheltering the 800 million humans living on the Reach Star, and allowing the 800 million humans to slowly improve their resistance to different spaces.

Although Sui Bian's current psychic power is far from the level of "squeezing and exploding" a star with one hand, it is still easy to cover the entire planet in an instant.

With the "vaccine" gradually perfected by the plague doctor, the earth where he lived the longest, and the colonies in the solar system, with a total of about 14 billion human beings, have already developed a very strong resistance to alien space.

Since the destruction of the home planet of the colonists, the total human population has grown to 27 billion people today.

There are 63 extrasolar colonized galaxies, and 54 planets such as Reach and Arcadia that have completed terraforming.

13 billion human beings live in areas outside the solar system, and 80% of them can only learn about the earth and the solar system through courses, the Internet and the media from birth to adulthood.

Moreover, these 13 billion people have also been injected with the "vaccine", but they have not received Sui Bian's spiritual protection, making their resistance to different dimensions inferior to the 14 billion people in the solar system.

Therefore, Sui Bian, who provided shelter for Reach Star, considered whether to wait for Anthem of Courage to complete the transformation, regularly cruise and station in the human territory for a period of time, and release spiritual energy to enhance the overall "resistance" of human beings.

Leaving aside the spiritual power, Sui Bian's physique also underwent "some" changes.

Because after another twenty years of development, the total number of Umbrella's existing Astartes has successfully exceeded 20,000, reaching more than 24,000.

The ability of "father-son connection" not only strengthened Sui Bian's physique, but also allowed each legion to finally have the appearance of a legion. It passed the "poor period" when only a few hundred Astartes were in one legion at that time. ".

And most of the recruits are no longer orphans, but selected from among the fittest of all human beings.

The company's intelligence officers will contact those who have normal families, and only recruit those who are only fifteen or six years old with the consent of their parents and guardians.

Of course, these parents and guardians need to sign a corresponding non-disclosure agreement. If they don't agree, the intelligence agent will directly use the amnestic device to make them forget all the information related to the Astartes.

Rebecca was originally responsible for the training of Astartes recruits, but due to the increasing number of recruits year by year and the increasing pressure, Alexia is currently assisting her in co-responsibility.

Moreover, Alexia, who was once the teacher of the Primarchs, is even more handy in training recruits.

As for the Göbekli Research Center, in fact, it has long stopped carrying out new research projects, and has now become a base for maintaining the body of God.

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At this moment, looking at the numbing series of numbers, Sui Bian pondered for a moment and said:

"Queen Red, you can start to pay attention to which warships and crew members in the UNSC fleet meet the conditions for being incorporated into the Legion Auxiliary Army, sort out the selected list and send it to me. It's time for the Legion to have their exclusive fleet."

"Yes." The Red Queen replied.

"How long will it take for Hymn of Courage to complete the transformation?" Sui Bian asked again.

"Estimated to take another 12 Earth days, sir, please be patient."

Bai Hou, who was standing on Sui Bian's right hand side, responded to his inquiry and said:

"Also, sir, I just received Agent Kennedy uploading information about the Arcadia anomaly."

After Bai Hou finished speaking, the information uploaded by Leon appeared on the desk, which was convenient for Sui Bian to browse.

Lyon?

Sui Bian knew that Leon and Ada were going to Arcadia to perform missions, but he didn't ask about the specific details. After all, it is impossible for him to personally intervene in all aspects of such a large company.

After a quick look at the information.

Sui Bian frowned slightly and said, "Queen Bai, tell Artemis to go to the colony of Arcadia with her Full Moon, and spy on Arcadia when they arrive. Don't take the initiative to expose their existence."

"Yes sir." Queen Bai agreed. "