Chapter 261 Glory and faith were ruthlessly trampled
West shore of the lake.
In front of the metal ruins embedded in the rock wall, a group of people led by Sui Bian gathered, as well as a group of elites guarded by guards and warriors.
Laura, on the other hand, walked to the right side of the ruins, preparing to operate a device that looked like a terminal.
Having had experience with Mesrein, Laura walked up to the terminal with ease, extended her right hand towards it, and slowly approached.
The sensing area detected the approach of a human's right hand, causing a blue ball of light the size of a football to suddenly appear on the lifeless terminal.
The light ball is generated by an alternative and more advanced holographic technology.
Because when Laura’s right hand is placed on the spherical surface, you can see that the five fingers are slightly frustrated, and the finger pads also become flatter.
Substantial tactile feedback shows that the light ball generated by the ruins terminal is not an ethereal simulation screen, but has an entity.
Immediately afterwards, the ruins changed due to her operations.
"Boom~...Boom~--!"
The gaps between the metal gates widened and expanded toward both sides, causing vibrations that caused large amounts of gravel and dust to fall from the rock wall.
It didn't take long for the tunnel entrance to the interior of the ruins to appear before everyone's eyes.
Sui Bian and Umbrella's staff have long been accustomed to such scenes, and will not be surprised or excited by the successful opening of a ruins gate.
The elite are not so calm.
If the Covenant wants to open the ruins of the Forerunners, they usually need engineers to help them crack it, and sometimes they need to use coercive means, which is not as easy as humans.
“…”
Looking at Laura who stretched out her right hand, Moore and some mature veteran elites had noticed that humans seemed to have higher access rights.
Realizing this, more and more elites began to think about it.
Sui Bian, who was standing not far away, secretly enveloped the entire Harvest Star with spiritual energy, continued to improve the resistance of millions of residents to alien spaces, and at the same time "hinted" the elites to seek answers.
His "hints" are similar to the whispers of demons and evil gods in other spaces, which can amplify certain emotions in the hearts of living beings.
But there is an essential difference between Sui Bian and those monsters in different dimensions. The pure spiritual energy he contains will not cause "blessing" distortions to the bodies of living creatures.
Unless he actively intervenes.
At this time, under Sui Bian's "hint", the problems and confusions that had been buried in the minds 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 exploring the ruins in front of him.
Laura, who was far away from the terminal, commanded several archaeological team members who had already been prepared, and released many sparrow-sized flying detectors, entered the interior through the tunnel, and quickly shuttled throughout the entire ruins.
Waited for a while.
Laura walked to Sui Bian and reported: "Chairman, the internal condition of the ruins is good and no abnormalities have been found."
"Okay, then lead the way, Director Crawford." Sui Bian chuckled.
"yes."
Next, Laura and her archaeological team are responsible for leading everyone deep into the core area of the ruins beneath the surface.
Without Moore's deliberate orders or the Terminators' urging, a group of elites followed the team on their own initiative, preparing to unravel the doubts plaguing their minds.
Enter the tunnel filled with glowing gaps.
Sui Bian took a closer look at the interior and found that the ruins were almost consistent with the architectural style of the Forerunners in his impression, but the metal color was more dark gray, almost black.
On the elite side, most of them were talking piously to themselves, seeming to be saying words like "I feel sorry for my God" and "For the Holy Light".
The entire tunnel is a 20° angle, straight downward slope structure without any branches in the middle, unlike the intricate maze of ancient tomb-type ruins.
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-like metal structures. Combined with the surrounding blue light, it looks like a metallic "Crystal Palace".
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 continue moving forward unimpeded.
But Laura, who was the first to walk out of the tunnel, didn't care about the cliff at all. She walked quickly towards another terminal built on the edge of the cliff.
Stretch out your right hand and do the same steps again, and then...
"Buzz~--!" sounded.
A bridge of 50 meters wide, emitting green translucent light, spanned the cliff in less than 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.
It wasn't until she stepped on the light bridge with everyone else that she couldn't help but glance down. After seeing that she seemed to be "floating" between the cliffs, her worry intensified even more.
There is always an illusion that the light bridge will suddenly disappear.
But Shirley was a veteran intelligence agent after all, and she quickly adjusted her mood, constantly hinting that she ignored the scenery beneath her feet, walked quickly through the light bridge, and arrived at the platform where the core was located.
Then Shirley, followed closely by Sui Bian, Leon and the others walked to the side of the inverted pyramid.
Take a closer look.
Shirley could clearly see a ball-shaped object the size of a football, but without luster, suspended in the core device at the top of the tower.
"Chairman." Laura, who was not far away from her, analyzed Sui Bian:
"The scale of this ruins is far greater than that of Mesrein. From the comparison between the two sides, it can be inferred that Mesrein looks like some kind of formal building, perhaps a beacon or a communication relay station.
The architecture here contains an aesthetic structure that we humans can appreciate, so it can be judged that it is some kind of database or library located at the back."
After listening to Laura's analysis, Sui Bian looked at the core of the spire and pondered for a few seconds, and then said to John: "John, it's up to you to lift the veil of this ruins."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Yes, Father."
After receiving the signal, John walked out of the crowd and walked to the edge of the tower without any scruples. Following Laura's instructions, he stretched out his right hand and held the sphere with his huge palm.
This grip seemed to have successfully activated the core device, and 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 green light, illuminating the entire underground space in an instant.
After the shine.
The core is for everyone present, showing a three-dimensional star map surrounding the top of the platform, allowing everyone to be directly immersed in the star sea and universe.
Witnessing the unfolding of the star map, everyone had different reactions.
Sui Bian and his sons had no expressions on their faces at all. Shirley and some of the technicians who followed were impressed by the beautiful scene that happened here.
Laura and the archaeological team members, after sighing with emotion, quickly used the instruments they carried to continue recording everything that was happening.
The elites who regarded the forerunners as gods opened their mouths widely, and some even knelt down on one knee in front of the pyramid, and said some prayers about our gods.
They are the least calm.
The two artificial intelligences did not act according to the thinking logic of normal creatures. The moment the star map was unfolded, they began to compare and analyze it with the database.
Soon, the two of them looked at each other and completed the silent communication.
Sui Bian, who noticed their little moves, saw Honghou approaching and immediately asked: "Is there any result?"
"Yes." The Red Queen nodded slightly and reported to her boss: "Chairman, the star map displayed at the core of the ruins is a star field with the Harvest Star as the center point and a radius of approximately six hundred light years.
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Among them, the galaxy where the Mesrein colony is located has been specially marked. From this, Queen Bai and I conducted reverse detection and screened out another marked star system.
At the same time, Queen Bai and I also discovered that the mark on Methrein showed that the ruins had been opened once twenty harvest star days ago.
This coincides with the time when Lara Croft's archaeological team officially launched an investigation into the ruins.
Therefore, Chairman, the enemy may have noticed our presence through the opening of the ruins, and sent a reconnaissance fleet to the Harvest Star on the edge of the territory to test our strength."
When the Red Queen said this, Sui Bian waved his left hand and said, "We will elaborate more when we return to the bridge."
"Yes." The Red Queen promised.
Immediately afterwards.
Sui Bian raised his head slightly, turned around as if admiring the star map, then looked directly at the group of four-petal mouths who were still extremely excited, and used his spiritual power to speak to Moore and all the elites:
"Captain Linmere, there is no doubt that this place was built by the gods you believe in. As you can see, it is grand, spectacular and mysterious, but..."
Sui Bian changed the topic and asked them: "We humans have access rights. Are we also the so-called gods?"
"..." Moore and the elites remained silent.
Some elites have rather strange faces. Even without using psychic perception, you can still see their expressions, as if they are saying "Isn't it?".
After all, Sui Bian's "supernatural" abilities, coupled with the effects of psychic suggestions, 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 gods".
Said: "The gods you believe in are the same intelligent race with flesh and blood as you and us, but their technology and civilization have reached an unimaginable level.
However, such a developed race was also attacked by unknown enemies and suffered a disaster of extinction, and has since disappeared from the galaxy."
"It's not extinction! It's the path to the divine realm!" a young elite retorted.
"Did they say it themselves? No, because from beginning to end it was the prophets who described their extinction as rising to a higher level.
Let's look at it from another angle.
Why do the Prophet clan welcome you, and other races join the Covenant Empire, but we are the only ones who refuse to have permission to visit the ruins?
If we humans join in, wouldn't the so-called pilgrimage of the Covenant Empire be smoother?
But the result was an extermination order without explanation.
So what is the reason why the prophet who first proposed the pilgrimage issued an order that hindered the smooth progress of the pilgrimage."
Sui Bian's words fell.
The elites ceased to be restless and fell into silence once again.
After being reminded like this by Sui Bian, no matter how low their emotional intelligence was and no matter how lazy they were to think, they still realized that it was the prophet who was launching a genocide-level war against threatening humans in order to consolidate their power and status.
In addition, the confusion that already existed in their hearts was infinitely amplified by "suggestions", and combined with Sui Bian's previous words, Moore and the others became more and more certain that the prophet family were completely decadent liars.
The prophet would rather exterminate mankind than make a smooth pilgrimage. This side shows that going to the so-called higher level or divine realm is all fake!
When I think about the belief in "My God" that I have been instilled in since childhood, and the "Covenant Scriptures" that they swore to defend, they also came from this group of liars...
"Ouch!"
The elites raised their heads and roared in anger to vent the overwhelming anger in their hearts.
They regard glory as more important than life. They fight tooth and nail in every battle and are willing to rush to the front line just so that they can complete their pilgrimage as soon as possible for themselves and their descendants.
Now it seems that everything they did before was meaningless, and even their glory and faith were used and trampled on 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 happened to the race I once believed in? Why do you humans have access rights?".
Hear the words.
Sui Bian did not give the other party a definite answer and said: "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."
"Yeah…"
Moore groaned and stopped worrying too much about his former "god" and authority. Then, with undisguised anger in his eyes, he asked Sui Bian:
"Dear Chairman, thank you for clearing up my and my clan's doubts, and for making us realize that the Covenant Empire is no longer as pure as it was before.
Although the request I want to make sounds a bit overwhelming, I still hope that you can grant us freedom and the use of a battleship, so that we can have the opportunity to question the garbage (prophet) on the spot and alert more people.
clansmen.”
"You can go, but you can only go halfway, and our engineers need to disarm all the warships before they can be handed over to you."
Sui Bian stated his conditions.
"Thank you for your understanding. If we succeed in warning the people, you will be the benefactor of the Sangheili clan. If necessary in the future, I, Mul Linmir, will never die..."
Before Moore could finish speaking, Sui Bian interrupted the other party's extremely respectful words and said: "Alert your people first, Captain Linmir."
"Yes." Moore nodded.
Next, Sui Bian asked a group of guards to escort this group of elites back to the surface first.
Looking at the backs of those rickety four-petal mouths, Leon couldn't help but sigh to his brother: "They are really a group of strange guys."