I don’t know why, but Shepard likes to have a pressure-relieving cannon so much before big operations—Liana’s screams in the captain’s cabin, and Shepard’s breathing sounds are almost as clear as an open-air movie.
No, it was very clear in the ears of Xie Yuan, who has super hearing. The other teammates probably knew that the two of them were "posting", but they probably didn't know the content.
However, after the clown was about to reach the Miao repeater, a pair of passionate lovers stopped. But when Shepard and Liana came to the cab fully dressed, Xie Yuan, who has sensitive senses, still smelled a strange smell...
He turned his head and pouted.
Fortunately, no one saw Xie Yuan's little move, because they were bothered by another thing at the moment.
There is indeed a fleet docked in the orbit of the planet Elos!
The good news is that due to the stealth system, this semi-military fleet cannot learn of the presence of the Normandy - as long as the Normandy does not get very close to other ships, it will be fine.
The bad news is that due to the unique ecological environment near the planet Elos, the suitable landing location is one kilometer away from Saren's signal. Moreover, even if the method of airdropping the Mako "Mako" infantry combat vehicle is used, there are many disadvantages - the nearest launch site only has a 20-meter-long runway, and the safe landing distance needs to be at least 100 meters.
A landing distance of twenty meters, in other words, means cutting into the ground at a very steep angle - this will prevent the miniature mass effector from completely counteracting the gravitational potential energy.
Because of this, Ashley and the navigator Presley had a direct quarrel - Ashley even began to become hysterical because of this fatal mission.
Fortunately, the clown fearlessly took on the most dangerous action of piloting a spaceship - flying at ultra-low altitude!
The ultra-low-altitude flight of a fighter jet is already considered a top-level dangerous maneuver, let alone the ultra-low-altitude flight of a spaceship?
But the clown just has the guts!
Since the clown risked his life and Shepard gave the order, Xie Yuan also had to help out!
So, when the mako shark really landed on the ground at a high speed and stopped only 10 meters away from the emergency exit door, its heartbeat, which had not accelerated for a long time, suddenly jumped to 180... It was so scary.
I guess Saren was also confused when he saw the mako shark falling from the sky.
But when Shepard jumped off the infantry tank and prepared to pursue Saren, it was still a step too late - this late step directly caused the current direct road to be blocked.
Um! Dramatically late.
However, Xie Yuan had already made up his mind to heat up the chaos, so he didn't make any intervention attempts and just followed Shepard, who was suspected of being the "Son of Destiny".
Sure enough, the Son of Destiny is the Son of Destiny, and by taking a detour, he can find something terrible - a hologram that has been damaged for 50,000 years.
Although it can still run, the words transmitted are intermittent and incomplete.
But only Xie Yuan and Shepard could hear the incomplete recorded words clearly. As for their old partners Liana and Tali, they were completely confused.
The recording here tells of some desperate attempts by a lone survivor after a belated warning about the Reapers.
Some secrets are in an archive, and this "holy path" seems to be a counter plan launched by the Protheans - but judging from the final recording, they still failed miserably.
Siluke
But for Team Shepard, finding the key word "holy path" means they are looking in the right direction.
Saren blocked the way to the central target, and to get there, they had to find the override device of the abandoned base and reopen the door.
Since this base still has energy to power the hologram, there must be an override device at the center of this place.
After finding the override device, Xie Yuan immediately got on the infantry fighting vehicle and sprinted towards the tunnel with the team.
What you see in front of you is a long and narrow passage with cabins with ring-shaped bottoms set up on the walls on both sides...
"These are all Protheans' cryo-sleep stasis chambers!" Xie Yuan also shared his knowledge generously, but with a look of helplessness on his face, "It's a pity that no one here has woken up... The master's VI In order to save important people and save energy, the program chose to abandon them."
"Goddess!" Liana was so shocked that she said, "This is murder. Is this VI program an artificial intelligence that so flexibly executed the lives of innocent people?"
Shepard also looked shocked: "They should be designed to protect them."
"What do you say, but if the reapers in the last cycle have not left for thousands of years, the built-in energy in the base will be easily exhausted."
Xie Yuan knew exactly what was going on: "In terms of importance, the brains of chief scientists or senior scientists are more important than those of ordinary secondary staff.
So with VI’s built-in emergency procedure preparedness, it’s not surprising that he would do this... Sigh..."
At this point, Xie Yuan's expression changed, and he began to look lonely and lonely.
"What's wrong, you?" Shepard didn't know what Xie Yuan was having.
"It's nothing, I just saw the miserable situation here, which broke one of my illusions." Xie Yuan curled his lips and explained, "I used to have 3-4 ideas about how to deal with the arrival of the Reapers, but now there is no surprise among them There’s an idea coming through here that proves this approach doesn’t work.”
"Wait?!" Shepard stopped Xie Yuan from talking to himself, "You also came up with four ideas? These are not your imagination, are they?"
"You are just making assumptions!" Xie Yuan replied impatiently, "To deal with powerful enemies like the Reapers, ancient wisdom tells us that we should either concentrate on building more fleets and the countless Reapers. Giant ships fight a war of attrition.
Or hide yourself somewhere in the universe of the Milky Way, wait for the Reapers to retreat, and then pursue your great cause. However, this time the Reapers' frustration with the Protheans' hiding methods tells us that in order to establish a long-term refuge, one must hide for a long enough time, and two must hide thoroughly enough - the Protheans have not done enough yet. "
"Oh? Why isn't it legal?"
But after hearing these words, the four of them were stunned.
Because this sound came from the car radio.
…
After driving the infantry fighting vehicle from left to right and killing the Geth soldiers blocking the road, the infantry fighting vehicle stopped directly in front of a thin film.
However, no one was too surprised, because this film had been reminded during the drive just now:
"Can you meet me? You can find me if you stop in front of an energy film."
However, when they actually arrived at this place, Xie Yuan and others secretly cursed the owner of the voice for being cunning - this horse riding could be considered an ambush on the only way.
Fortunately, apart from the energy film, there was no other malicious intention, so Shepard led everyone to a nearby fork, which contained an elevator.
Kind of like the maintenance department area.
And the owner of this voice...well...if he could be called a human being.
What appeared before his eyes was a chaotic ball formed by a group of holographic fragments, but he said in a quite calm tone: You are not a Prothean, but you are not a machine either. This is one of many situations we anticipate and why we issue warnings via beacons.
Tully saw that this was a severely damaged high-level VI program, but what she didn't expect was that this virtual intelligent program, which was supposed to have no free judgment, actually had very high intelligence... in addition to answering all questions.
The virtual intelligence has a name called "Night Watcher", which is Vergil. She told the three Shepards about what happened during the last Reaper reincarnation.
Xie Yuan knew 60% of this story, Shepard knew 40%, and Liana and Tali had never even heard of it - fortunately, Virgil added a lot of it this time.
As everyone has guessed, the Citadel Space Station is also a stealth relay station. But the method of operation is only known to the Reapers, and it only leads to one place, the dark space - the place where the Reapers inhabit after previous reincarnations.
In the last reincarnation, the Reaper fleet directly opened the repeater function of the Citadel space station, destroying the interstellar political center of the Protheans... It seems that they have used this trick in all reincarnations, and it is not uncommon.
Then, by mastering the basic galaxy of all the Protheans' sphere of influence in the Citadel space, and by blocking the operation of the repeaters, the effective power of the Protheans was destroyed bit by bit through various defeats.
Among them, they often corrupted the lone people in various colonies, allowing them to be taken in as refugees by the colonies and then slowly destroyed, destroying them inside and outside.
After hundreds of years of destroying all resistance, the Reapers, which swept away all the remaining technologies and technologies of the Protheans, once again left the Citadel Space Station and entered hibernation.
As for the rest, the vassals who lost their sense of self after being transformed by the Reapers? They have been completely abandoned long ago. They will directly destroy themselves in a period of time because they cannot manage themselves... The Prothean race of a generation will be destroyed.
The Citadel Space Station has returned to its original state again, waiting for the next attracted scapegoat to arrive, and then start a harvest again tens of thousands of years later...if there are no exceptions.
But there really is a planet, a high-tech colony that was hidden deep in confidential files and escaped the first wave of harvest - Elos cleverly escaped the first wave of harvest.
But unfortunately, it was only the first wave of harvesting. The Prothean race was doomed. With only a few hundred people, they could only choose to bury themselves in stasis chambers, hoping to avoid the harvesting process through this method.
The planet Elos finally survived the hundreds of years of harvesting process - but the price was to ensure the survival of the chief scientist team. When unable to provide energy supplements, Virgil chose to shut down the life support of most people. system……
Even so, the chief scientist team lived a very difficult life and almost died.
It was in vain to revitalize the race, but a dozen people decided to give a big gift to the next arrival of the Reapers before they died!
Before they were invaded by the Reapers, they were preparing to try to build a small relay on Elos to communicate with the Citadel Space Station.
Although the people are gone, the relay station still exists and is still in stable connection, which means that they can return to the Citadel Space Station before they die.
They began a countermeasure plan - as the parties involved, they knew clearly that the race of caregivers who existed as nannies and maintenance workers on the Citadel space station only began to show their fangs and accept the space station after receiving the message from the Reapers.
Then make it impossible for these guardian races to receive the Reapers' signals, and cut off the Reapers' habitat, the dark space, and the Citadel Space Station - let's see how these guys come over!
Therefore, after the Citadel Council came to power, the overlord as the reaper sentinel found that it was impossible to open the road to the dark space, and then began to corrupt organic creatures in advance and prepare to create organic viruses.
And Saren, the unlucky guy, was taken in by the wisher.
The biggest problem now is that this repeater named "Holy Path" has been used by Saren. He will rush into the Citadel space without knowing anything about the Citadel's defense mechanism, and open the door to the Citadel. The restrictions of the caregivers lead the reapers to enter.
If he really did it, it would be too late to regret it.
But fortunately, everything is not irreversible yet, not to mention that Xie Yuan has secretly believed that Ada has begun to prepare for the transfer of Pan-Asian leaders, pro-Pan-Asian dignitaries and an ambush of Saren's vanguard.
There is also a copy of the data in Vergil's own equipment. As long as Shepard can re-upload the data to the control device of the Citadel Space Station, control will still be under human control.
Because the price of obtaining the copied data may be the complete damage of Vergil, Liana wanted Shepard to communicate with Vergil to gain knowledge that they did not know. Shepard did not refuse.
Soon, after the exchange, Shepard began to obtain this information, but then Xie Yuan stepped forward and wanted to communicate with Virgil.
Shepard already knew from Virgil that Saren had not reached the Holy Path yet, but she still gave Xie Yuan three minutes.
Looking at the team going away, Xie Yuan also turned to look at Virgil and spoke in the Prothean language: "I once used my spiritual ability to transcend to the era when you were being destroyed, and saved a bunch of Prothean cubs, and It was handed over to a military general named Jarvik who has survived to this time.
I have preserved the survival of your race... although this time is also very embarrassing. "
Yes, I originally thought that I could go dormant and make a comeback, but I didn’t expect that it would end in destruction again soon. It’s really embarrassing.
But unexpectedly, Virgil was very calm about this: "As long as there are enough people, the glory of the Protheans can be revitalized. Since you can save the Protheans from extinction, maybe other miracles will happen... …
The message left by Jarvik's portable VI Victor told me that you expect something in return. I wonder what you want from me? "
"Fuck! As expected, Victor left me some hands and feet!" Xie Yuan was speechless upon hearing this, then returned to his normal expression and looked at Virgil, "Can you tell me where to find the "Qing Tian Furnace"?"
"The Optimus Furnace Project... is being retrieved..." Virgil began to search and self-check, and then a red warning signal appeared, "Error, the Optimus Furnace Project has been artificially deleted, and the project data has been cleared."
"Fuck! Are there any other clues that can help me find any clues about the "Sky Furnace" project?"
With an angry scream, Xie Yuan restrained his anger and asked cautiously, and then began to break into pieces, "Or why don't you give me some other skills so that I can make some money, or strengthen myself?" ?Can I have this?"
"Retrieving... Sorry, all projects related to "Qingtian Furnace" have been deleted and cannot be reproduced through data recovery."
After a moment of silence, Vergil continued to speak: "The retrieved part of the undamaged data can be used as technology to give to the saviors of the Prothean race. Please confirm whether you accept it?"
"Mom Lai Lai, hey, just ask for what you have!"
Xie Yuan agreed with a lonely look on his face: "I agree to accept it."
…
Two minutes later, when the energy film was closed, Xie Yuan caught up with the infantry fighting vehicle that was about to accelerate and began to speed towards the Holy Road repeater...
Saren! Wash your neck and wait for us!
