Chapter 269 Rebels Eridana "Take It for Yourself" Night (Two in One)
The nearly kilometer-long Neptune was interfered with by humans and was forced to leave the jump space and come to the deep space of the physical universe.
And in front of the Neptune, there is a terrestrial planet with a barren surface and almost no green or blue.
At this moment in the bridge;
"We have left the jump space according to your instructions."
The captain, who was sitting in the main seat and had white hair and beard, looked at the holographic screen in front of him and continued to say to the marines who had already controlled the scene:
"According to the star map, we have entered the Eridana star zone, about 200,000 kilometers away from the second orbit of Eridana C."
After speaking, more cold sweat oozed from the captain's forehead.
And looking around from the captain's perspective, it can be found that except for the captain himself, the first mate and the helmsman, the rest of the bridge personnel have long become corpses and collapsed at their respective posts.
On the other hand, the four marines who control here can enter the bridge unimpeded, seemingly relying on the assistance of the first mate.
After all, the captain and the helmsman were sweating profusely, while the middle-aged male first mate stood by the observation window with a smile on his face, looking at Eridana C. 200,000 kilometers away.
It was obvious that the first mate's "rebellion" and unlocking the gate leading to the bridge caused the current situation.
At this time, the first mate turned to look at the captain and said with a smile:
"Thank you for your cooperation, which has liberated us and given us the capital to negotiate with the corrupt government."
"Liberated? Frick, you are not."
Hearing the first mate's words, the captain wanted to say something, trying to make the other party change his mind.
Pah!
Unfortunately, the captain was interrupted by a gunshot before he finished speaking.
Puff!
The captain's forehead also had a blood hole in an instant, and a large amount of blood and brain tissue sprayed out from the back of his head.
Puff!
Then, the captain fell forward with a stagnant face and fell on the metal deck without any movement.
As for the person who fired the gun, it was the first officer who raised a small-caliber pistol with one hand.
"Captain!! You bastard!!!"
Seeing this scene, the helmsman rushed towards the first officer in grief and anger, and it seemed that he was ready to risk his life and die with the other party.
It was not that the helmsman was so brave, but after the captain was shot, he instantly realized that no matter how well they cooperated, once they were no longer useful, they would be ruthlessly executed.
Da! Da Da!
Puff-Chi——!!!
However, the final outcome of the helmsman was that he was shot and killed by a Marine, and the helmsman's body was directly "torn apart" by the rifle bullet.
Ding~Swoosh——!
The bullet was flying and jumping around in the bridge.
!!! !!!
This caused the first officer to quickly hide behind the control panel and yelled:
"Use a pistol! Use a fucking pistol!! And I don't need your help, fuck!"
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The scolded Marine just shrugged, his expression slightly disdainful.
Then, the first officer left the control panel, glared at the marine, then walked to the captain's seat and turned on the radio:
"Attention all personnel, I am the first officer of the Neptune, Lato Frank.
At present, the Neptune has been liberated and controlled by us, and is heading to our home planet, Eridana C.
Finally, please give up your fantasy. You are our liberated hostages and our bargaining chips for negotiation with the UNSC and UEG.
If the UNSC refuses to negotiate, then don't blame us for killing you. If you go to hell after death, you can vent your resentment on the corrupt Earth government.
So, pray that the UNSC will not do anything small, hehe."
After saying this, the first officer turned off the radio, and then used his authority to set the Neptune to start automatic navigation and head to the orbital space station in Eridana C.
Although the Neptune is large in size, equivalent to two Paris-class frigates, the hull strength cannot compete with battleships or colonial ships at all.
Besides, the Neptune was originally built and welded in the near-Earth orbit, so it could not descend into the atmosphere and had to rely on the orbital space station to complete the parking.
As for the Liberation of Freedom, it is an extreme rebel army active in the near-Earth colony.
The Eridana star system they control is only 7.2 light years away from the solar system.
The so-called near-Earth colony is a general term for the planets that were first colonized and transformed by humans in the "Halo" universe after entering the interstellar era.
Including the moon, Mars, Europa, Titan in the solar system, and Reach outside the solar system, there are about two hundred planets or satellites in total.
Tianyuan IV, where Reach is located, is the star system with the largest scale and the largest population of near-Earth colonies.
But the Eridana star system is also within the scope of the near-Earth colony, and all resources must be based on the Earth and Reach first, resulting in the colonists of Eridana being continuously exploited.
If it weren't for Eredana's complete shipyard and its ability to jump, and the fact that Liberation had obtained a Nova-class nuclear bomb (NOVA), the UNSC would have been unable to take action against Eredana and would have been slow to send a fleet to suppress it.
Because the Nova-class nuclear bomb is one of the UNSC's strategic weapons.
The nuclear bomb is made of a lithium triterpene shell and has nine nuclear warheads with a TNT equivalent of more than 10 million tons. Therefore, it will be "infinitely" compressed at the moment of the nuclear explosion to achieve a power increase of several times or even dozens of times.
In other words, a Nova-class nuclear bomb is theoretically enough to change the surface environment of an Earth-like planet.
If Liberty completely loses its mind and drops this Nova-class nuclear bomb on Earth, it will be a situation that UNSC and UEG cannot bear.
Moreover, after a long period of infiltration, Liberty's spies and soldiers have infiltrated the middle and lower levels of UNSC on Reach and Earth.
For example, half of the UNSC Marines responsible for the security of Neptune are members of Liberty.
In addition, no active combat platoon on Reach is willing to serve as senior security for an airline, so after some operations, this combat platoon of half "insiders" entered Neptune.
When the time is right.
That is, when the "gold content" of the passenger members reaches a certain level, they will directly kidnap them.
The purpose is naturally not to ask for ransom, but to make the Earth government publicly recognize the independence of Eridana, not to interfere with the free development of Eridana, and not to interfere with it by force.
Although this operation is no different from that of terrorists, the free liberation without hard power can only use this kind of means to find ways to fight for its "legal rights and interests".
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At this moment, in the buffet restaurant of Neptune;
Three marines whose real identity is the villain army are watching over the passengers sitting on the carpet.
The children sobbed in fear, and the adults shook their heads and sighed, as if they were thinking about why they wanted to take this cruise ship to travel, or regretting their decision to buy tickets.
In the crowd, there are people who are hot-headed and hold the idea of "I can do it!" to snatch the rifles from the hands of the rebels.
The result is a fragmented corpse.
The UNSC standard rifle used by the rebels is MA5B, which adopts a bullpup structure, a 60-round ammunition capacity, and uses 7 full metal armor bullets.
All these characteristics make the MA5B's impact on the human body devastating.
So hundreds of people seem to have an absolute advantage over three people, but the passengers sitting here have never experienced life and death, let alone the awareness of selflessness.
No one wants to be killed by a gun, not to mention that they are all civilians without combat capability.
If it were the residents of Universe 03 (Doom Slayers) with tough folk customs, they might try to fight the rebels at the beginning of the chaos.
Leon, Mike and Maggie also sat here quietly.
And when they heard the word "liberation" from the radio, they had already analyzed the cause and effect of the hijacking of the Neptune based on the information in their memory.
After all, liberation is a more famous and radical faction among all the rebel factions.
It's just that
Their action this time is to deal with the corrupt officials on Earth, and they have no intention of targeting the rebels at all.
But they ran into this kind of thing.
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Mike became more and more "angry" as he thought about it, and turned his head to look at Leon who was sitting against the wall.
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Leon looked confused, not understanding what happened to his friend.
In fact, the reason why Mike was angry was more or less "superstitious". He thought that it was Leon, a troubled guy, who involved them in the internal strife of the human beings in "Halo".
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Maggie, who was standing next to them, winked at the two and indicated when to start.
The superhuman clenched his right fist again, telling the two that she was confident that she could eliminate all the rebels responsible for guarding the restaurant without hurting innocent people.
In response, Leon and Mike shook their heads at the same time.
Leon also lowered his voice and whispered: "Plans cannot keep up with changes. Since we have come to the Eridana system, we should take this place for ourselves."
Take it for ourselves?
Maggie was stunned.
Because from her perspective, she was still focused on carrying out the task of "assassinating corrupt officials".
That is, relying on her own extremely strong physical body and two elite investigators who have received genetic enhancement, she forcibly eliminated all the rebels on the ship, and then seized control of the Neptune and continued to go to Earth.
As for how to deal with subsequent problems, Maggie was ready to let Cortana assist.
However, the two "old guys" Leon and Mike thought "since we are here, we should make the best of it".
Since Liberty Liberation "invited" them to the Eridana galaxy and seriously interfered with their original mission plan, they would completely disintegrate Liberty Liberation and let the company directly show up in the "Halo" universe.
Secondly, their operations director Ada judged that the best time to launch the company's official website was to reveal some individual camera footage and action details to the public through the company's official website after they physically removed a batch of termites.
However, the interruption of the plan caused by Liberty Liberation made Leon and Mike think that it would be better to take this opportunity to capture the communication base station of Eridana C and get in touch with the core base of 0459.
They both have the authority to know that there are already six Sojourner-class dreadnoughts that can be put into use.
Four of them assisted the company fleet to rush to the universe of the City of Charity to deal with the full counterattack of the Ghost Face Beast Prophet.
The remaining two were responsible for handling emergencies.
Therefore, if they could get in touch with 0459's core base and have the company dispatch a Sojourn-class ship and several destroyers and frigates, it would be enough to plant a "nail" in the core position of the UNSC and UEG.
While completely destroying the Freedom and Liberation with the force of thunder, they can also show the humans in the Halo universe the hard power of Atlas.
At the same time, Chris and others can still infiltrate the earth and eliminate the termites according to the established plan to gain the high ground of public opinion.
Leon and Mike are comrades who have been tacitly in arms for many years, and naturally they also considered the solution to obtain the greatest benefit for the company at the first time.
You must know that Atlas's investigators, especially the elite investigators, have a considerable degree of freedom of decision-making, not to mention that in such a situation, the company has no reason to reject their proposal.
At this time;
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Maggie is still confused and can't match the "brain waves" with Leon and Mike.
But these two people are her immediate superiors, and Mike is the captain of the action, so she had to give up the original idea and wait patiently.
It didn't take long.
The three rebels seemed to have received the latest order, and raised their MA5Bs. One of the corporals shouted:
"Get up! Everyone, get up!"
"Hurry up!"
"Don't dawdle, and don't think about delaying time!"
The other two privates also urged.
Seeing this, the passengers had to stand up and follow the instructions to the lobby outside the restaurant, and then go to the cargo hold on the lowest floor along the safety passage.
When they arrived at the cargo hold--
Bang--Bang--!
Everyone heard some large metal object, which seemed to be in contact with the Neptune, causing obvious vibration and sound.
Then, the door of the cargo hold opened, showing everyone a large corridor bridge, the transfer hall of the orbital space station, and more rebels wearing desert-colored combat uniforms.
At this point, Leon, Mike, Maggie, who were mixed in the crowd, and the "large army" completely left the Neptune, and then took the cargo orbital elevator to the surface of Eridana C.
Wait for the elevator gate to open--
Hu~--!
Strong air currents surged rapidly from the outside into the elevator.
And the dazzling starlight and the scorching surface temperature made it difficult for most passengers to adapt well for a while.
"Get out!"
Da! Da!
The rebels responsible for the ground reception fired guns into the sky to intimidate everyone to leave the freight elevator as soon as possible.
And after following the crowd out of the elevator, Leon and his friends were finally able to see the surface of Eridana C with their own eyes after coming to the outside world.
Desert, high temperature, and drought are the most straightforward descriptions.
The orbital elevator was set up in the suburbs of Costia, the capital of Eridana C.
And the platform of the orbital elevator allows Leon and his friends to overlook this city that can accommodate a million people.
However, Costia is far inferior to the New Alexandria, which is "favored" by Reach. Its buildings and facilities are backward and the overall look is very depressed.
Not to mention the comparison with Reach, even the labor and living environment of Harvest is much better.
After all, Harvest has not been overly exploited.
Next, everyone was escorted by the rebels to a warehouse in the suburbs to wait for the results of the negotiations between Liberation and the Earth Government.
And Leon and the other two patiently waited for the night to fall in Costia City.