Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

West shore of the lake.

In front of the metal ruins embedded in the rock wall, a group of people headed by Sui Bian gathered, as well as a group of elite guarded by guards and warriors.

And Laura is walking to the right side of the ruins, ready to operate a device that looks like a terminal.

With the experience of Maesline, Laura walked to the terminal with ease, stretched out her right hand towards it, and approached it slowly.

The sensing area sensed the approach of the human right hand, and suddenly a football-sized blue ball of light appeared on the lifeless terminal.

The photosphere is generated by an alternative and more advanced holographic technology.

Because when Laura's right hand was placed on the ball, she could see slight setbacks in the five fingers, and the pads of the fingers became flat.

Substantial tactile feedback indicates that the light sphere generated by the relic terminal is not a illusory simulation picture, but a real entity.

Immediately afterwards, the ruins changed due to her operation.

"Boom~...Boom~——!"

The gap between the metal gates widened and spread out to both sides, and the resulting vibration caused a large amount of gravel and dust to fall from the rock wall.

It didn't take long for the entrance to the tunnel leading to the interior of the ruins to appear before everyone's eyes.

The staff of Sui Bian and Umbrella have long been accustomed to this kind of scene, and they will not be so surprised or excited by the successful opening of a relic gate.

The elite were not so calm.

If the Star Alliance wants to open the relics of the Forerunners, they usually need engineers to help them crack them, and sometimes they need to use coercive means, which will not be as easy as humans.

"..."

Looking at Laura who stretched her right hand back, Moore and some mature veteran elites have already noticed that humans seem to have higher access rights.

Aware of this, more and more elites began to think.

Standing not far away, Sui Bian, who secretly covered the entire Harvest Star with psychic energy, continued to increase the resistance of millions of residents to different dimensions, and at the same time "hinted" the elites to seek answers.

His "suggestion" is similar to the whispers of demons and evil gods in different spaces, and can amplify a certain emotion in the creature's heart.

However, there is an essential difference between Sui Bian and those ghosts and monsters in different spaces. The pure spiritual energy contained in him will not cause the "blessing" distortion of the creature's body.

Unless he actively intervenes.

At this time, under the "hint" of Sui Bian, the problems and confusion that had been buried in the hearts of the elites for a long time were infinitely magnified in an instant.

While sensing this, Sui Bian continued to focus most of his attention on the exploration of the ruins in front of him.

I saw Laura, who was far away from the terminal, commanded several archaeological team members who were already ready, released many sparrow-sized flying detectors, entered the interior through the tunnel, and quickly shuttled through the entire ruins.

Waited for a moment.

Laura walked up to Sui Bian and reported: "Chairman, the interior of the ruins is in good condition, and no abnormalities have been found."

"Okay, then lead the way, Director Crawford." Sui Bian smiled lightly.

"yes."

Next, Laura and her archaeological team are responsible for leading the crowd to go deep into the central area of ​​the ruins under the surface.

Without Moore's deliberate order or the urging of the terminators, a group of elites actively followed the team, ready to solve the doubts that plagued their minds.

Walk into a tunnel filled with glowing crevices.

Sui Bian took a close look at the interior and found that the architectural style of the ruins was almost the same as that of the pioneers in his impression, but the color of the metal was dark gray, close to black.

On the elite side, most of them are talking to themselves piously, seeming to say words such as "feeling for my god" and "for the sake of the Holy Light".

The tunnel as a whole has an angle of 20°, a straight downward slope structure, without any branches in the middle, unlike ancient tomb-shaped ruins with intricate mazes.

After walking forward for a few minutes.

A group of people walked out of the tunnel and came to an extremely open underground space.

Both the rock wall and the top of the rock wall are large sheet-shaped metal structures. With the surrounding blue light, it looks like a "Crystal Palace" with metallic texture.

Above the platform at the end of everyone's field of vision, there is a small inverted pyramid. Its most cutting-edge device is connected to the metal floor of the platform, like the core of the entire ruins.

And a bottomless cliff stood in front of everyone, dividing the underground space into two, making it impossible for them to move forward unimpeded.

But Laura, who walked out of the tunnel first, didn't care about the cliff at all. She walked quickly to another terminal built on the edge of the cliff.

Stretch out your right hand, do the same steps again, and…

"Om~--!"

A bridge of 50 meters wide, emitting a turquoise translucent light, crossed the cliff in the blink of an eye, allowing everyone to move forward again.

"..."

Shirley, who walked to the edge of the cliff with everyone, felt a little worried after seeing the light bridge.

When she stepped on the light bridge with everyone, she couldn't help but glance down, seeing herself "floating" between the cliffs, this worry intensified a bit.

There is always an illusion that the light bridge will suddenly disappear.

But Shirley is a veteran intelligence agent after all, so she quickly adjusted her mood, constantly hinting that she ignored the scenery under her feet, walked quickly across the light bridge, and arrived at the platform where the core was located.

Then Shirley followed Sui Bian and Leon to the side of the inverted pyramid.

Take a closer look.

Shirley could clearly see a dull spherical object the size of a football floating in the core device of the spire.

"Chairman." Laura, who was not far from her, gave an analysis to Sui Bian:

"The scale of this relic is much larger than that of Methrein, and through comparison between the two sides, it can be inferred that Methrein looks like some kind of regular-purpose building, possibly a beacon or a communication relay station.

The buildings here contain aesthetic structures that we humans can also appreciate, so it can be judged that it is some kind of database or library located at the rear. "

After listening to the analysis given by Laura, Sui Bian looked at the core of the spire and meditated for a few seconds, and then said to John: "John, it's up to you to lift the veil of this ruin."

"Yes, father."

John, who was signaled, walked out of the crowd, walked to the edge of the spire without any hesitation, imitated Laura's operation steps and stretched out his right hand, holding the sphere with his huge palm.

!

This grip seemed to successfully activate the core device, and an extremely dazzling blue light burst out through the gaps between John's five fingers.

At the same time, the outer wall of the pyramid also emitted a blue light, illuminating the entire underground space in an instant.

After the glory.

The core is everyone present, presenting a "sheet" of three-dimensional star maps around the top of the platform, allowing everyone to directly immerse themselves in the universe of stars.

Witnessing the unfolding of the star map, everyone reacted differently.

Sui Bian and his sons didn't show any turmoil at all. Shirley and some technicians who followed were impressed by the beautiful scene that happened here.

After lamenting, Laura and the archaeological team quickly used the equipment they carried with them to continue to record everything that was happening.

The elite who regard the forerunners as gods opened their four-petal mouths wide, and some even kneeled down on one knee to the pyramid, saying something about my god's prayers with "owwow".

They are the most restless.

The two artificial intelligences can't act with the thinking logic of normal creatures. They started to compare and analyze with the database the moment the star map unfolded.

Soon, the two of them looked at each other and completed the wordless exchange.

And Sui Bian, who noticed their small movements, saw Hong Hou take the initiative to approach, and then asked, "Is there a result?"

"Yes." The Red Queen nodded lightly, and reported to her boss: "Director, the star map displayed at the core of the ruins is a star field with a radius of about 600 light-years centered on Harvest Star. .

Among them, the galaxy where the Methrein colony is located has been specially marked, so the White Queen and I conducted a reverse inspection and screened out another marked star system.

At the same time, the White Queen and I also discovered that the mark of Mesrein showed that the ruins had been opened once twenty Harvest Suns ago.

This coincides with the time when Lara Croft's archaeological team officially launched an investigation on the ruins.

So Chairman, the enemy may have detected our existence through the opening of the ruins, and sent a scouting fleet into Harvest Star on the edge of the border to test our strength. "

When the Red Queen said this, Sui Bian lightly waved his left hand and said, "I'll talk about it when I get back to the bridge."

"Yes." The Red Queen agreed.

Immediately afterwards.

Sui Bian raised his head slightly, turned around as if appreciating the star map, looked directly at the group of four-petal mouths who were still extremely excited, and used his spiritual power to say to Moore, and at the same time to all the elites:

"Captain Linmeer, there is no doubt that this place was built by the gods you believe in. As you can see, it is magnificent, spectacular and mysterious, but..."

Sui Bian changed the subject and asked them back: "We humans have access rights, so are we also so-called gods?"

"..." Moore and the other elites remained silent.

Some elites have rather strange faces, and even without using psionic perception, they can still see their expressions, as if saying "Isn't it?"

After all, the "supernatural" abilities displayed by Sui Bian, coupled with the effect of psychic hints, have shaken the beliefs of many elites.

Vaguely, he even regarded Sui Bian as a god-like existence.

Seeing this, Sui Bian continued to emphasize the point of view of "no god".

Said: "The gods you believe in belong to the same intelligent race with flesh and blood like you and us, but their technology and civilization have reached an unimaginable level.

But such a developed race was also attacked by an unknown enemy and suffered extinction, and has since disappeared in the galaxy. "

"It's not extinction! It's the path to God's Domain!" A young elite retorted.

"They said it themselves? No, because it is a family of prophets from beginning to end, describing their extinction as rising to a higher level.

Let's look at it from another angle.

Why does the Prophet clan welcome you and other races to join the Covenant Empire, but reject us who have access to the ruins?

Wouldn't it be smoother for the Covenant Empire to carry out the so-called pilgrimage if we humans joined in?

But the result was an involuntary extermination order.

So what is the reason that the prophet who first proposed the pilgrimage gave an order to hinder the smooth progress of the pilgrimage. "

Sui Bian's voice fell.

The elite stopped restless and once again fell silent.

Reminded by Sui Bian in this way, no matter how low their emotional intelligence is and how lazy they are to think, they still realize that it is the prophet who wants to launch a genocide-level war against the threatening human beings in order to consolidate his power and status.

Coupled with the fact that the confusion that already existed in the heart was infinitely magnified by the "hint", and then connected with what Sui Bian said before, Moore and the others became more and more sure that the prophets were completely decadent liars.

The prophet would rather exterminate human beings than make a smooth pilgrimage. This shows that going to the so-called higher level or God's Domain is all fake!

Thinking about the belief in "My God" instilled in childhood, and the "True Covenant" they swore to defend, also came from these liars...

"Aw!"

The elites raised their heads and roared furiously, to vent the monstrous anger in their hearts.

They regard glory as more important than life, and they are willing to rush to the front line every time they fight, just to complete the pilgrimage for themselves and their descendants as soon as possible.

Now it seems that what they did before was meaningless, and even the glory and faith were used and trampled by the prophet.

a long time.

Moore raised his right hand to signal his subordinates to keep quiet, and then expressed his last doubts to Sui Bian:

"I want to know, my god... no, what kind of disaster did the race I once believed in encounter? Why do you humans have access?".

heard the words.

Sui Bian did not give the other party a positive answer: "It may be some kind of "plague", or it may be some kind of "flood" that swallows everything. The specific past still needs to be explored, including the connection between us humans and them."

"yes…"

Moore pondered for a while, no longer entangled too much in the past "my god" and authority, and then revealed undisguised anger in his eyes, and begged Sui Bian:

"Dear Chairman, thank you for clearing the confusion for me and my family, and for making us fully realize that the Covenant Empire is no longer as pure as it used to be.

Although the request I want to say sounds a bit out of control, but I still hope that Your Excellency can give us freedom and the right to use a battleship, so that we can have the opportunity to question the garbage (prophet) on the spot and alert more tribe. "

"You can go, but you can only go halfway, and our engineers need to disarm the battleship before handing it over to you."

Sui Bian stated his conditions.

"Thank you for your understanding. If we succeed in alerting the clansmen, then you will be the benefactor of the Sangheili family. If there is a need in the future, I, Murlin Mir, will never die..."

Before Moore finished speaking, Sui Bian interrupted the other party's extremely respectful words: "Wake up your clan first, Captain Lin Mier."

"Yes." Moore nodded.

Next, Sui Bian asked a group of guards to escort the group of elites back to the surface first.

Looking at the backs of those crooked four-petal mouths, Leon couldn't help but sighed to his brother: "It's really a strange group of guys."

"Yeah, sure." John nodded.