Chapter 277 "Rebellion?" "Earth-Shaking" "Spreading Rapidly"

There is a metal gate hidden by dense grass and thorns in the rock where the escape exit is located.

There are also fortifications embedded in the rock, as well as automatic sentries, artillery and a large number of surveillance cameras.

In addition, more than a hundred "regular soldiers" wearing heavy armor and military-grade prostheses are responsible for garrisoning and patrolling.

If you want to break through with ground units, even if you succeed, you will definitely pay a heavy price.

After all, this is one of the most important entrances and exits to the experimental base, or for the personnel in the experimental base to escape to the outside world.

But the current war has exceeded the situation that military technology can control.

So the personnel in the experimental base are preparing to copy various top-secret materials, and destroy the experimental prostheses, weapons and heavy armored vehicles that cannot be taken away, and then use the escape exits scattered around the mountains to continue retreating to the south.

However.

Swish-swish-!

Boom! Boom! ! !

However, two metal hydrogen missiles accurately hit the metal gate and the gathering point of the regular soldiers of military technology.

Then the dazzling white light and deafening explosion completely devoured and "annihilated" the area near the escape exit.

Whoosh!

The strong shock wave that was enough to shatter and "blow away" the human body swept around and uprooted the trees.

The high-temperature flames instantly "cleaned up", and the thorns and grass were burned to ashes. Even the soil that should have been very wet was now dry and cracked.

When the aftermath dissipated, the place returned to peace.

But the metal gate had long disappeared, and the passage leading to the inside of the mountain was exposed to the outside world.

At this time, the four synths who were at a safe distance rushed into the passage at a speed like an afterimage, holding their own special plasma guns and Gauss guns.

Then-

Tata. Tata!

Intensive gunfire sounded.

This shows that the synths have already started a crushing close-range confrontation with the military technology soldiers inside.

As for the sound of the synths using hacking technology to "burn and blow up" the soldiers' heads, it was covered by the dense gunfire.

After all, their physical physique far beyond that of ordinary people is only the most basic configuration, and their electronic brain is the crucial "weapon".

The previous two metal hydrogen missile bombardments were the firepower assistance sought by the synths from a Vulture.

They also specifically instructed the crew of the Vulture to adjust the equivalent of metal hydrogen to 30% to avoid unexpected situations.

They are not afraid of death, but they will not really force their way in.

Their own side has the ability to blow up the outer defense facilities, so the synths naturally consider the best solution.

Moreover, the actual combat data that Dorn wants to collect is how effective they are against enemy infantry units after installing the "Cyberpunk" prosthesis.

Not long after;

The gunfire coming out of the passage gradually weakened, and the advance teams that were still in hiding "arrived late".

More than a dozen veterans, who were top elites, quickly arrived at the escape exit, which had long been unrecognizable and covered with a large number of crystal-like structures, in a standard "33" formation.

Hearing the movement inside and seeing the details displayed on the slightly zoomed-in radar, they knew that the four synths were doing a "cleaning" job far beyond their expectations.

"Wow"

Finding that the synths were extremely efficient, Soap couldn't help but complain:

"If those guys could be mass-produced, would there be any work for us humans?"

At this time, Xiaoqiang under the helmet could use the outline of his body outlined on the screen to see Soap patting his own equipment and continued to complain:

"The combat uniforms provided by the company have not been used a few times, but they have solved a group of gang members who don't know the height of the world, as well as a few company puppets. Alas."

"It's not good to slowly withdraw from the front line." Ghost didn't care.

This veteran, whose emotions rarely fluctuate violently, observed the progress of the synths and said:

"As it is now, dangerous things are performed by tools. Isn't that the original intention of the company to manufacture these products?

Let them be responsible for exploring the situation of the new universe in the future. They may be much better than us."

"Experience and intuition are not what machines have."

Soap noticed that the synths were getting farther and farther away from their location by slightly reducing the radar, so he stopped complaining and ordered the advance team:

"Zero Point, Scarecrow, you two teams stay here to guard, and the rest of you follow me into the interior."

After that, Soap, Ghost, Xiaoqiang and others headed towards the experimental base.

The six advance teams with Gauss snipers, precision rifles and "small" caliber intelligent machine guns chose favorable terrain and remained alert.

After walking a distance, Soap and his team saw corpses and debris all over the ground.

Most of them were attacked by spike bullets and plasma bullets, which caused such a tragic situation. A few of them seemed to have been "torn apart" and "disassembled" by brute force.

The soldiers who might have used military technology wanted to launch a sneak attack, but were instead "torn apart" and "hammered" by the synthetics.

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Xiao Qiang frowned when he saw the scene in front of him.

He had originally planned to buy one at his own expense when the civilian version of the synthetics came on the market to help with housework and cleaning.

But now, Xiao Qiang couldn't help but associate it with the "AI rebellion."

After all, according to the three principles proposed by Asimov, the most fundamental and core point is that "robots must not harm humans, or stand by while seeing humans being harmed."

You know, even though Serin has a physical body, she only hacked into the brain of the leader of the Tiger Claw Gang, and he was still the one to carry out the final execution.

"Tsk, tsk." Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Soap said in a more solemn tone:

"The company should have insurance measures in place. I don't want to be an enemy of this group of efficient killers in the future."

"Theoretically it's impossible." Ghost said calmly:

"Synthetic humans have emotions and self-awareness, and they also understand what killing is, and the company has invested a lot of money and manpower in research and development to make us humans safer."

"That's all I can think about." After saying this, Soap changed the topic and asked:

"Hey, Xiaoqiang, are you still thinking about finding a synthetic wife?"

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Hearing this, Xiaoqiang shook his head repeatedly.

"Haha!" Soap noticed Xiaoqiang's violent reaction through the helmet screen, and couldn't help laughing:

"It's better to go to Terraira and find an elf girlfriend, boy."

"Stop teasing." Ghost took over the words, "Synths are about to occupy the database, and it's time to sign for military technology assets."

"Okay, let's go."

While the "Cyberpunk" universe is in full swing to unify, the "Halo" universe is also "turbulent".

April 14, 2512.

Earth.

This human home planet, located in a remote and desolate area of ​​the Milky Way, revolves around the sun in a third orbit like most parallel universes.

However, the Earth in the "Halo" universe is almost armed to the teeth.

A large number of defense platforms are deployed in low-Earth orbit and form a defense array to guard against threats from space.

Countless military ships are parked at the orbiting space station, conducting daily inspections and supplies.

At this moment, both the sunny side and the dark side of the universe are shining with dazzling blue light.

These bright lights represent civilian and military ships that are about to jump or have left the jump space.

As the core of human economy, politics, culture, etc., the earth is naturally also the transportation hub of all near-earth colonies.

Mars, located in the fourth orbit, has become a "forging world" used by humans to produce weapons and build warships.

It can be said that the humans living on the earth of "Halo" are much happier and more comfortable than their compatriots in the universes of "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Doom".

At least in the current timeline, humans in "Halo" are not officially at war with the Covenant.

Except for high-level human beings and the confidential personnel involved, ordinary people are completely unaware of the existence of the Forerunner relics. They even believe that humans are the only lucky ones in the universe and have become an intelligent race capable of developing civilization.

As for the United Nations Space Command, the Earth headquarters of the UNSC, it is located in Sydney, formerly Australia, in the southern hemisphere.

Passing through the atmosphere, we came to Sydney on the sunny side, in the autumn afternoon.

As a city with the headquarters of the UNSC, Sydney has grown in size over the centuries and is much larger than the capitals of Harvest and Reach, with a permanent population of approximately 40 million.

There are also a large number of traditional maritime warships moored at the port to facilitate tourists to visit.

However, at this moment, the senior officials of UNSC, UEG and ONI were not in a happy and relaxed mood like the tourists.

Outside Sydney.

The UNSC headquarters looks like a tall tower, with a conference room on the upper floor;

"Are you ONI all trash? It's been so long and you still can't get any specific information about Atlas?!"

"The Aridana galaxy is completely blocked, and the other party has advanced detection technology. No jump navigation can escape the other party's supervision."

"Where's the stealth cruiser that I spent a lot of money to build for you?! It can't do this, it can't do that, you're the best at dealing with your own people, right?!"

"Annoyance cannot solve problems. General, you and your colleagues have lived for so long, you should understand this truth better than anyone else."

The people here seemed to be having a heated discussion about the series of events caused by Atlas.

Looking around, the guys sitting behind the "U"-shaped conference table are mostly senior officials and generals with important positions and high positions.

Navy and Army generals were agitated, while officials from the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) were stating the facts.

Not long ago, after the Liberation of Freedom accidentally hijacked the Neptune with Leon, Mike, Maggie and his party, the Eridana system controlled by this extreme rebel army was forced to " Change of ownership".

Then, many accounts related to Atlas suddenly appeared on all the Internet and social media in humankind.

Such as "Atlas Biotechnology", "Atlas Armed Sector" and so on.

These accounts also uploaded pictures, texts, and videos to promote Atlas’ products and its armed forces.

At the same time, "Atlas Official" disclosed to the public the existence of "space gates" and "parallel universes", and also released individual videos of Atlas fighting with different universes and different species.

The most terrible thing is

This account named "Atlas Anti-Corruption Storm" completely exposed the dirty and smelly side of UNSC, UEG and ONI on the Internet.

The picture and article with the most views is undoubtedly "The list of borers to be treated/in progress, will be continuously updated."

Moreover, in order to publicize to the outside world that Atlas was indeed capable of completing the "clearance of insects", it proved it with a single-soldier camera raid on the ONI headquarters.

It’s just that the mosaic content of individual soldier cameras is astonishing.

When the staff responsible for network security on Earth and in various colonies noticed the sudden rise in content related to Atlas, they tried to delete and block it, but all efforts were in vain.

Even smart AI cannot help them prevent the spread of this information.

Accounts and information about Atlas are like an Internet virus. The number of views and readings is rising rapidly, and it has almost spread to all mankind in just a few days.

This moment caused a violent "earthquake and mountain shaking".

Most of the moderate rebels have issued statements that they are ready to cooperate with Atlas if necessary.

Radicals like Free Liberation made little response.

As for the ordinary people who live a more comfortable life, they regard these as after-dinner talk. As long as it does not affect the current situation too much, they are ready to have fun.

On the other hand, people in marginalized colonies who have endured unequal policies seem to regard Atlas as an emerging "rebel" that is truly capable of solving fundamental problems.

The reason why they are regarded as rebels is that not many people believe that there really is a "space gate" that can lead to a parallel universe in this world.

The elves, dwarves and "magic" of Terraira are just means used by Atlas to create gimmicks.

Even though some private professionals have analyzed that the videos and images are not edited or synthesized except for mosaic processing, people are still willing to insist on the answers they want to hear.

but--

"Ha! You are really good at dealing with people! Okay, okay!"

However, the senior officials and generals who were still quarreling knew that everything announced by Atlas was true.

UNSC and ONI know the difference between true and false.

Secondly, the details of the battle that broke out in Eridana were also teleported to the UNSC headquarters on Earth by their spies who had infiltrated the local planet and risked their lives. After that, they completely lost sight of Eridana.

The Army General, who laughed angrily at ONI's reply, looked at the ONI official sitting opposite and said in a deep voice:

"Yes, we have indeed lived longer than others, but we will not just watch the enemy kick open the door of our home and take away the most advanced artificial intelligence.

The person who engaged in intelligence was taken away from his hometown by the other party. If it were me, I would have swallowed the gun and punished myself. How can this coward still have the dignity to sit here and talk nonsense? "

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Hearing this, the ONI officials naturally understood that the admiral's words were referring to the raid on the ONI headquarters.

After being poked into a sore spot, several officials immediately responded again.

"Everyone!"

However, a middle-aged female official quickly stopped the dispute from escalating and said to everyone:

"The purpose of our meeting is to resolve Atlas, which is a greater threat than the rebels, not to engage in endless infighting."