Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

Elf...

New alien race?

How long have you been hiding in Bulton?

What did they have to do with those convulsed Jiralhanis?

Witnessing the real existence of the "elf", a series of questions suddenly appeared in Leon's mind, trying to figure out what the frontier star area is facing, whether it is related to the different space, and so on.

If you want to solve the confusion, the most convenient solution is to cooperate with the support that is about to arrive to capture them alive for interrogation.

But at this moment, the elf who was more mature and slightly older than the other companions was able to speak human language smoothly. First, he said to the elf who was being followed by Leon:

"Yina, you are still too young. Didn't you realize that you attracted a human who wanted to capture us alive?"

talking.

The older elf raised his head, his eyes met the monitor of the "ant" robot, and at the same time, he met Leon's eyes as if through the phone screen.

Then there was a "pop!", and Leon's cell phone, which was like a crystal sheet, exploded directly.

! ! !

The sudden change made him quickly throw away the shattered mobile phone, hold the pistol tightly in both hands, and run quickly to a distance.

The expected wall collapse did not occur.

The six elves did not attack Leon, but chose to leave the warehouse through the main entrance.

Looking at the elves who were slowly approaching him, Leon raised his gun to confront him, but in order to avoid misunderstanding and delay, he also did not pull the trigger rashly, and then asked loudly:

"Who are you? What is the purpose of coming here?"

heard the words.

The elves gradually stopped, and finally kept a distance of about ten meters from Leon.

"Hehe." The elder elf smiled calmly, pointing out Leon's idea of ​​delaying time, and said:

"Human, I know what you are thinking, from your point of view, capturing us alive is a correct decision...

But this kind of decision will only destroy the relationship between our race and you humans, let alone maximize the interests between us, and even fall into the calculations of the evil god Pallas. "

"Benefits? Evil God Pallas?" Leon's expression became more solemn, and he replied in a deep voice: "In this case, please cooperate with my work and just stand here and stay well, how about it?"

"Forgive me." The elder elf shook his head and smiled, "We have more important things to deal with, and now is not the best time for us to discuss cooperation."

The other party's voice just fell.

"Huh~!" The roar of the engine of the small assault boat, which is dedicated to the atmosphere, can be heard from above.

Above the dense foliage.

An assault boat with the hatches on both sides open, carrying an emergency response team from the intelligence department equipped with light power armor and holding a non-standard Gauss rifle, quickly rushed to the sky above this area, circled around and began to lower its altitude, so that the emergency team could You can jump out of the cabin directly and implement a plane drop.

Sensing that the support called by Leon was about to arrive, the elves turned and left without lingering.

"Stand..." Leon wanted to intercept.

But "Stop!" Before the roar was finished, the group of elves jumped to the roof of low buildings or houses with muscle strength far superior to that of ordinary people, elites, and even iron-blooded people, and then ran extremely fast. The speed scattered in all directions, disappearing from his sight.

Just looking at the pure physical quality, the elves seem to be more like a fighting race, especially the elderly elf, there is no need to deliberately guess and infer, Leon knows that the other party is also a handy existence in the use of psychic power.

"Step! Step!"

The 14 members of the emergency response team who jumped out of the cabin and smashed the branches directly landed beside Leon, completing the "regular" airborne landing.

The moment they landed on the ground and stood still, the emergency team, in a team of two, chased in the direction where the elf was fleeing.

The team leader with dark red shoulder armor led a subordinate to Leon and saluted: "Director Kennedy, it is a great honor to respond to your request for support, but please stay where you are before the technicians arrive at the scene." I hope you can understand."

Leon raised his hand in return and said, "Don't worry, I'm the most familiar with the procedures of the Ministry of Intelligence."

And added: "Also, tell your people, if you catch up with the fleeing target, try to capture it alive if possible."

"To understanding."

The team leader who was reminded conveyed the command to capture alive to each team.

Next Leon waited patiently for a moment.

The technicians on the ground transportation vehicles walked through the alleys with various instruments to inspect the interior of the warehouse where Leon and elves gathered.

Lyon was only able to regain his freedom of movement after the obtained test results showed that everything was normal.

He first took a ground vehicle back to the hotel, retrieved his travel bag and checked out in advance, and then left here on an assault boat.

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…

After a few minutes.

On the northern outskirts of the city of Budapest, there is a military base also "surrounded" by the rainforest, which is large enough to accommodate 20,000 people.

This base belongs to the 503rd Infantry Division of the UNSC, and the soldiers on patrol in Budapene come from the 503rd Infantry Division.

There are complete air defense facilities in the base, and there are also fortifications on the outside. The most obvious is the four corners of the base, erected with light prism towers that rotate slowly on the top of the tower.

The power required by the four prism towers, air defense facilities and the entire base is provided by a nuclear fusion reactor.

There are not many heavy armored units in the base, but the airport on the north side is parked with a large number of air transport vehicles such as transport planes and transport boats.

And on the side of the airport, there are three small assault boats with black paintwork and belonging to Umbrella.

at this time.

The assault boat that Leon was on board skimmed the rainforest at low altitude, sailed above the base, slowed down and landed towards the airport.

inside the cabin.

Since there was no seat, Leon stretched his legs out of the cabin and sat in the area close to the cockpit, letting the breeze mess up his hair, overlooking the entire base.

soon.

The assault boat hovered above the airport, and was guided by a ground crew holding a light stick to land in the designated area.

However, during the landing process, Leon saw an acquaintance.

Wait for the assault boat to come to a complete stop.

The "acquaintance" also came to Leon who stood up, stretched out his right hand to him, and said with a sweet smile, "Long time no see, Leon."

Leon also switched to holding the travel bag in his left hand, freeing his right hand to shake hands with the other party, and also smiled and said: "Ah, it's really been a long time, Aya."

In fact, Ajabrea is the full name of Lyon's acquaintance.

It was precisely because Leon, who was carrying out the investigation mission, involved Brea in the strange mannequin incident, that made her, who used to be a police officer in Venice, resolutely choose to join Umbrella and become an intelligence agent.

At this moment, Brea still had blond hair that fell short of her shoulders, and she was dressed similarly to Leon in dark overalls and shirts.

But Brea's shirt was a slim fit. After all, she didn't need a loose fit like Leon's to completely cover the weapons and equipment around her waist.

After greetings.

Brea let go of her right hand, turned and walked towards the black-painted Warthog, and said to Leon who was following her, "You are still as heroic as ever."

"It's okay." Leon spread his hands.

The two got into the car.

Brea was in charge of driving the Warthog, took Leon through the base, and continued: "How about it, besides those six humanoid aliens, what else did you find?"

"They seem to have a tendency to form alliances, but my first impression is that they should like to make some riddles... Forget it, let's report the rest to the superior."

Speaking of this, Leon turned his head to look at Brea, who was focusing on the road conditions, and asked, "I'm curious as to why you came to Poulton."

"It's nothing." Brea steered the Warthog to turn right, and said, "Back then, the frontier sector needed experienced intelligence agents, so I came here. Isn't it the same for you, and you haven't stopped running until now?"

"Not exactly, because I have a lot of vacations." Leon joked.

"Well...you really haven't changed from before." Brea, who doesn't like jokes very much, shook his head helplessly.

The two were talking.

They then drove into the base of the 503rd Division, which belonged to Umbrella's temporary station area.

Among the information and files provided by the Red Queen to Leon and the agents, there are intelligence directors for each colony, as well as the stations of the Reserve, Krieger, and UNSC.

Like Bulton.

A total of nine UNSC divisional units, four Krieger combat regiments, and two reserve companies whose mother regiments were Obstacle Breakers were deployed on the ground.

Aside from the 313th Regiment of Krieger stationed at the quantum communication relay station for a long time, and a reserve company, the rest of the troops are distributed near the main city of Poulton.

There are hundreds of thousands, or even more ghost-faced beasts lurking in the Bulton rainforest now, and there are psychic responses, so the main force needs the support of an intelligence department that is good at analysis.

And Lyon's luck is really good, because of the recent situation, Brea happened to lead his subordinates to be temporarily stationed in the 503rd Division, and he happened to be able to respond to his support immediately.

The Warthog stopped.

The two got out of the car, walked into a three-story command center, and then walked towards the control room on the top floor.

Come to the control room.

The civilian intelligence agents sat in front of their respective workbenches, monitoring the rainforest near Budapene, trying to track down the six elves, and also continued to pay attention to the movements of the Brutes.

The "unmanned reconnaissance drone" that sends the picture back to each screen is a bionic robot that is not afraid of humidity and heat, and can almost perfectly blend into the natural environment.

It is similar to the "ant" used by Leon, but most of them are medium-sized birds, and they also use living skin technology.

Just looking at the appearance, it is impossible to tell the difference between them and real birds. In a complex environment like the rainforest, it can be regarded as a very efficient detection method.

"What's the result?" Brea asked.

heard the words.

An intelligence agent reported to her: "Sir, as long as our reconnaissance plane successfully captures the figure of a humanoid alien, it will be destroyed by the other party. There is a high probability that it will be a psionic attack."

"I see." Breya walked to the center of the control room, and responded according to the intelligence officer's report:

"Suspend the pursuit of the humanoid alien, let the emergency team recover the damaged reconnaissance plane, and the current focus of work is to assist the 503rd Division in searching and eradicating the Kirahani tribe.

Finally, a communication request was sent to the governor of the star area, saying that Director Kennedy had discovered important information. "

"Yes, sir."

The intelligence agents began to process the orders from Brea.

Leon, who was standing beside Brea, glanced around at the content on the holographic screen, waited for a while, and saw many blue light spots emanating in front of them, and then the Primarch John, who was not wearing power armor, condensed.

The Moff Brea spoke of was the Primarch of the Second Legion.

John was wearing a black uniform, with a dark green tassel on his left shoulder, and a button with a red and white umbrella and the Spartan "Λ" logo on his neckline.

Although the Primarchs seem to be giants who can only hack and kill, in fact, most of them have extraordinary management capabilities, and Robert is at the "human ceiling" level.

If you devote yourself to studying sociology, physics, architecture and other disciplines, your attainments will definitely far exceed those of the great people in history.

Just piles of government affairs and military affairs, as well as understanding the situation facing human beings, these Primarchs hardly have the leisure time to study their respective hobbies.

When John's holographic image was generated, he lowered his head and looked down at the two people of normal height, and said in a cold tone, "What information do you have?"

heard the words.

Leon immediately said: "We found six humanoid aliens with psychic abilities. The other party has the intention of forming an alliance, and the other party also mentioned the word "evil god Pallas". It may be related to a different space."

"Evil God?" John, who was informed of this information, replied as usual: "I will report this matter, and the support will also make arrangements, if nothing else, then please continue to carry out the investigation mission and provide more information. "

"Understood (yes)." Leon and Brea nodded.

See here.

John just nodded slightly, and dissipated the holographic imaging without saying anything more, restoring the control room to its original state.

"Cthulhu..." Brea muttered to himself, and said to Leon, "You tell me, since when did we no longer feel strange and awed by the word god, but instead got used to it?"

"Let's start with the chairman." Leon didn't delve into it carefully, then raised his hand and patted Brea's left shoulder, reminding:

"What I have to consider now is how to complete the task. My intuition tells me that those elf-like humanoids are also chasing and killing the Jiralhani tribe in the rainforest. If we launch an encirclement and suppression operation, we may encounter them by mistake. .”

"I hope so."

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…

Shortly after.

In Harvest Star Cosmic Domain, the main fleet of the Second Legion is stationed.

More than forty warships and ships of all levels are scattered and parked in orbits about 400 kilometers above the ground, keeping the same rotation speed as Harvest Star.

And located directly above the ground city of Aldega, is an Olympus-class aircraft carrier with a sharp shape and a regular main body, which is close to fifteen kilometers away.

This is also the flagship of the Second Legion, the Hope.

The Olympus class is the flagship of the Legion after the Reach Star Shipyard absorbed the core technology of the Covenant Empire, then condensed the cutting-edge technology of mankind, and improved on the basis of the original project fourteen years ago.

Moreover, after fourteen years of rapid development, the Reach Star and many construction worlds have enriched the "family tree" of the human fleet.

After all, the competition for orders is still fierce.