Chapter 486 Xie Yuan is Surprised, Anderson is Worried, Shepard is Shocked
Does Anderson really not know my background? Or is he using my background to cause trouble?
Theoretically speaking, Colonel Anderson is a very pure soldier based on his resume, and has basically never interfered in politics... But how can a person with no means climb to the leadership of the special forces?
But there is really nothing Xie Yuan can do about this matter other than reporting it to the Pan-Asia Consulate.
I can only say this, unless Xie Yuan no longer wants to stay in the army, otherwise within this system, he must submit to the management of the hierarchical system.
Although the Star Alliance Navy carries the title of Star Alliance in its name, it is actually a force loyal to the United Earth Government. The planetary security force to which Xie Yuan belongs is just one of them, and its status is far lower than that of the United Earth Government.
Starfleet Navy.
What's more, Xie Yuan is just a second lieutenant now - the Star Alliance Navy follows the American system in personnel transfer, and the promotion of junior officers from second lieutenant to lieutenant adopts a "decentralized selection system", which is approved by the commander of the unit where the officer belongs.
The supreme commander on Yidian Prime has been crushed to death by Saren's dreadnought, and Xie Yuan himself is theoretically the supreme commander.
Then the deployment must be arranged according to the administrative relationship of Yidian Prime, and the deployment can only be arranged by the Star Alliance Navy. Therefore, the Normandy, the only ship that came for reinforcements, became the only one with the right to mobilize Xie Yuan at this stage.
Superior.
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with Anderson's dispatch. It is just as reasonable as when he transferred Ashley to the Normandy.
But Xie Yuan is very confused. He doesn't know whether this is good or bad. What if there is a "White Tiger Festival Hall" incident?
But military orders cannot be tampered with, alas!
Xie Yuan could only pack everything up. Fortunately, he had Ada to help him in the past six months. Xie Yuan transferred all the confidential information and research materials in the basement to Ada, so there was only a workshop and an inorganic water tank left here.
Training room.
Looking at the belongings that had taken him several years to accumulate, Xie Yuan took a nostalgic look, packed up all his personal belongings, and moved them to the storage box of the Normandie.
This place is about to be occupied by Corporal Jenkins. His job profile has been transferred to the regional security force, and he was promoted three levels to a second lieutenant.
I don’t know if Jenkins is willing to work on Yidian Prime. After all, it’s really boring and tiring. But I guess judging from the sluggish look on his face during the handover, the impact of the commando battle was not that quick.
Can fade.
Xie Yuan could only put aside all distracting thoughts and stationed aboard the Normandy to perform his service mission.
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The spacecraft quickly took off and moved in the direction of the mass relay. Looking at the Yin Dian Prime that was getting smaller and smaller, Xie Yuan was filled with emotions.
From 2181 to this year, I have been in this place for almost three years, and today I can finally legally escape to the outside world.
But at this stage, he still has to behave well here. He is now particularly afraid of things like the White Tiger Festival, so he always acts with the large troops, never alone, and never with the confidential level.
Xie Yuan did not want to have any trace of involvement in cabins, such as the cab, ICC area, or even the engine room.
However, Xie Yuan didn't want to offend anyone, but someone still wanted to find him.
It's Shepard.
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Fifteen hours after he passed out at the beacon site, Shepard, lying on the medical bed and returning to normal service, finally opened his eyes.
She was cared for by Kaiden, who was always by her side, and then Dr. Jakovos gave her a recovery check-up.
Kayden and Jakovos simultaneously explained what happened next to Shepard. Although it was a bit regretful to hear that Jenkins was forced to temporarily settle on Yidian Prime, she also understood.
Immediately, Colonel Anderson also came in. He asked to have a private conversation with Shepard. Because Nilus was still unconscious in the bed next to him, their conversation had to be moved to the confidential room.
"To tell you the truth, Shepard, the situation is not optimistic."
Anderson changed his majestic and calm demeanor in the secret room and became very depressed, "Nilus is in a deep coma, the beacon is gone, and the geth have started to invade again. The council definitely needs an explanation."
Shepard believed that he acted magnanimously and made no mistakes in his actions. The mission was generally completed, and the council should be able to accept this explanation.
Anderson also supported Shepard and her operational report, but this matter was insignificant compared to what he was going to say next.
"Saren is a ghost and a living legend-level agent." Anderson was worried about Saren's appearance and role in the raid, "But if he cooperates with the geth, it means he has betrayed
The castle."
So Anderson is now very afraid of Saren: "The rebellious ghost is a big trouble. Saren is a dangerous person and he hates humans very much."
Shepard felt that regardless of whether he had any personal hatred for humans, he must have come to Inden Prime for the beacon.
Anderson also supports this, so he hopes to get some information from Shepard: What does Saren want to get from this beacon?
But this time Shepard answered unconfidently: "Just before I passed out, I saw some kind of vision."
"Illusion?" Anderson began to pace. Although he felt strange, he still asked patiently, "What illusion?"
Resisting the shame of being laughed at, Shepard crossed his arms and thought for a while before confessing honestly: "I saw mechanical creatures, probably geth, killing creatures and slaughtering them."
As a result, Anderson seemed very serious: "We must report this matter to parliament."
Shepard stared at Anderson with wide eyes, speechless. She thought Anderson was joking: "Oh, what should I tell them? I had a nightmare?"
But Anderson's expression was very serious, and he thought it was necessary: "We don't know what information is in the beacon, the lost Prothean technology? Or is it a blueprint for some kind of weapon of mass destruction? No matter what it is, Saren also
Got him.
But I know Saren, I know his person, his political views, he believes that humans are a nuisance to the galaxy, and this attack is tantamount to a declaration of war!"
Anderson vented his worries while pacing: "Now he has the secret of the beacon and commands an army of geth. He will not stop until he wipes out humanity from the galaxy!"
After receiving Anderson's concerns, Shepard said she would definitely bring Saren to justice.
But Anderson told her that this was not an easy task - because as the number one ghost in Parliament, he could go anywhere without any hindrance.
So the only way is to rely on the help of the Parliament. Anderson has contacted the human ambassador and asked to contact the Citadel to organize a hearing.
And Shepard's mission is to organize materials to prove Saren's rebellion.
But just when Shepard was about to find the Joker to drive the Normandy to the port, Anderson stopped Shepard.
"After you and the clown finished the mission, you went down to the cargo hold to comfort Second Lieutenant Xie Yuan, who was brought up with Sergeant Williams. I heard that he has been very nervous since he boarded the ship."
"Oh?" Shepard showed a funny look, "So this is his first time going to Normandy, so why is he so nervous? We should just let him relax for a while."
"Xie Yuan is a veteran who has served on a destroyer for five or six years. He cannot be nervous. I think he is afraid that I will do something detrimental to him."
Anderson explained helplessly.
"Then you can?" Shepard quickly understood what was happening, and then asked Anderson half-jokingly and half-seriously.
"Times have changed. Our main contradiction should be to face the outside world in unison and strive to give human beings a more important status, rather than engage in internal strife together... Although this is not something that can be changed overnight, I definitely don't want to get involved in two interests.
The group’s secret confrontation, even though I should be affiliated with the Star Alliance.”
Anderson looked at Shepard righteously: "Even if humanity is really in danger of a disaster, I hope that we can get through it together instead of sacrificing one party to save ourselves.
Pan Asia is also willing to think so."
Anderson's words meant something, and Shepard suddenly noticed that something was wrong with his old boss's tone, so he asked probingly: "Is there something I need to know?"
"Do you know why I didn't laugh at what you said about this mechanical creature killing people?"
Anderson didn't hide it from Shepard: "Because I, as well as some of the senior Star Alliance military officials who don't care about party strife, have seen a similar animation."
"Animation?" Shepard raised his eyebrows, "What kind of animation is this?"
"It's a 3D animation, but when we watch the animation, we don't focus on the plot," Anderson tinkered with several functions in the confidential room, and soon a scene began to play on the big screen.
"God's Coming"
Shepard looked at the film title above - "The Prothean's Last Stand" and looked at Anderson with strange eyes.
But Anderson did not answer her, but continued to watch the screen, so Shepard could only bury the desire to complain and continue watching...
Then her eyes suddenly widened.
Because at this moment, there are a lot of giant dreadnoughts of different sizes and the same color as Saren's, and smaller ground support ships are being attacked by a group of four-eyed people with green skin and red armor holding a particle emitter.
Blocking progress.
Although the result was that they were crushed and failed like a mantis blocking a car, then these dark gray giant ships opened their claws and sprayed out giant red laser beams, causing huge explosions everywhere.
In Shepard's eyes, the images that entered her consciousness when being transmitted seemed to begin to become clearer and clearer... She was about to understand what happened!
"Shepard!!" A sudden burst of powerful shouting made Shepard wake up from the situation. She couldn't help but look at her mentor Anderson who had just woken up next to her and complained: "I can almost understand what happened.
It’s over.”
"Then your brain is completely overloaded! Look at your nose." Anderson immediately handed over a handkerchief, then looked at the frozen image on the screen and murmured, "Sure enough, this 3D animation is not groundless. It seems stuffed.
Burruss did learn something."
"What? Oh, my God!" Shepard then realized that blood began to slowly flow from under his nose. Fortunately, it was not much. Shepard immediately covered his nose with a handkerchief and raised his head to stop the bleeding.
Anderson, who cared about his subordinates, immediately stopped Shepard's behavior when he saw the symptoms of nosebleeds. He did not want to put his beloved general at any risk.
"How did you get this animation? Where did it come from?" Shepard asked, snoring.
Anderson considered the words and then said: "This was secretly passed to Pan Asia half a year ago by someone with the permission of their senior management for some of us to take a look and evaluate it.
As for Pan Asia... Pan Asia got this video a year ago, and the producer of the animation... is Xie Yuan."
"This... now that we know... why..." Shepard was shocked. Our superiors had known about it for a long time, so why didn't we think of something to do?
"Oh, because Fanya himself doesn't want to believe this," Anderson said with a dumbfounded expression, "If there were no special circumstances, Fanya would not have given it to us so quickly."
"What?" Shepard didn't understand what Anderson meant.
"In the beginning, this was just a story that foreshadowed that after the organic beings set foot on interstellar civilization, they would be destroyed by the mechanical race within a certain period of time.
But Pan-Asia’s understanding is that we should try our best to pay attention to this situation when mechanical creatures begin to rise, and we don’t need to worry too much about other things, just be yourself.”
Anderson explained to Shepard in detail: "Later, when Pan-Asia received the news, Cerberus's reaction became more and more intense. It seemed that Pan-Asia had to take a serious stance when facing some kind of catastrophe.
Treat this video.
After careful study, I thought this was a problem that all mankind needs to face, so I contacted us quietly.
And we obviously regard this video as a fable, and what we are wary of is Cerberus's strange actions.
As a result, thinking about today's incident, Cerberus knows a lot of things, and their plans are very big."
"This...Cebrus also..." Shepard did not expect that a small animation could be learned by the three largest forces in mankind at this stage.
Soon she thought of a question: "Since we know that Xie Yuan produced this video, then just find him and let him explain."
"But the problem is, he refused to elaborate on how he knew about it."
Anderson told Shepard something that made her unbelievable: "He once said to the Pan-Asian leader to whom he was loyal, that he could go on a suicide mission and die, and asked him to tell him about it again.
,no way."
"Could it be...can't we be tough?" Shepard didn't think it was possible for two giant forces to be powerless against one person?
"After all, this is not about treating the enemy. Some methods cannot be used. Using them will only aggravate his rebellious psychology. The key is that he, Xie Yuan, is not an ordinary person."
Anderson said to Shepard solemnly: "On Yidian Prime, dozens of spies from the Star Alliance and secretly sent by Cerberus disappeared. From the moment they stepped into Yidian Prime, they disappeared.
Lost contact.
He also secretly sent a message to this side: If you have the guts, target him more often. He will not refuse anyone who comes. If you dare to attack his family, don't blame him for going crazy.
A few days later, all the spies from the Star Alliance returned to the Arcturus headquarters in a daze, and asked how they disappeared. None of them could remember, so we quickly stopped the operation. I guess Cerberus did the same.
A little scared.
Therefore, apart from destroying the Yin Dian main star, conventional methods have no effect on him."
"Are you sure...you are not talking about a Superman?" Shepard looked at him in disbelief. At this moment, she finally understood why Kaiden was afraid of Xie Yuan.
"I don't know if he is a superman, but in short he is not a simple guy. This is my perception."
Anderson then revealed his true intention of taking him out of Yin Dian Prime: "The psychological profile shows that he seems to have a soft spot for staying in the system, so I want to treat him as a soldier on duty and see if he listens.
Don’t obey orders.”
"What if he doesn't listen?" Hearing that Xie Yuan was such a dangerous person, Shepard was suddenly a little worried... She would never admit to being afraid, she wasn't afraid!
"That's another story, but I really hope that if disaster is really imminent, he will be a help rather than a hindrance."
Anderson confided his true feelings to his right-hand man: "This is also Pan-Asia's Director Ban Qian's hope. It would be a pity if this powerful assistant spends his whole life hiding in Yidian Prime. I hope we can lead them."
"You really gave me a big trouble! Anderson." Shepard looked at his mentor a little depressed.
But Anderson just smiled, and then left to do his own thing. After all, isn't it natural to leave trivial matters to capable people while he works on more important projects?
Here, Shepard took a deep breath for a long time before suppressing the brainwashing of a lot of information. Then after grabbing the useful information, Shepard began to do what needed to be done.
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And here Xie Yuan is maintaining the knife, which is the sword seized from the Chosen Assassin. To care for this special alien metal knife requires applying a special mineral oil.
Then wipe the blade with imitation deerskin to achieve the effect of daily maintenance of the knife.
In fact, this tachi does not require too detailed maintenance, because the blade contains psychic energy, and it will continuously absorb nearby metal particles to surround the entire body of the knife to achieve the effect of self-maintenance.
I clean the knife here just to make my behavior a little more casual, so as not to be too nervous and cause tension to the people on the ship.
As a result, footsteps suddenly came from behind. I listened carefully and realized that it was a woman. The footsteps were heavy and powerful, and then she resumed wiping.
Because the person coming is Shepard.
Although she appeared behind him and said the first words softly, she was stunned:
"If you were afraid that you would be murdered if you stayed on the ship, why didn't you ask Anderson to let you go back as soon as possible?"